Woman reunited with wedding ring

By JOHN C. ENSSLIN Scripps Howard News Service November 28, 2002

LITTLETON, Colo. - Kathy Zafian believes in fate. She believes a person's life can pivot on a chance conversation.

And she can prove it.

It happened last month during the last game of the season for the Red Starts, a youth soccer team. he was standing on the sidelines, cheering on her 6-year-old daughter, Kelsey. She struck up a conversation with Karen Moore, whose daughter, Amy, had joined the team this year.

Zafian noticed the diamond ring Moore was wearing, particularly the little square diamonds on the sides.

"I really like that setting," she told Karen Moore. "I had one that was similar to that, but I lost it."

It was her wedding ring. During the years since she got married, the ring no longer quite fit on her ring finger, so she took to wearing it on her pinky.

One chilly October afternoon, Zafian and her mother went for a walk. There were two rings on her finger. The other was the gold ring that had been her mother's wedding ring.

Zafian was walking her dog, a frisky Wheaten terrier named Navy. The dog saw some other dogs and tugged on her leash, which rubbed against the outside of Zafian's hand.

It was getting dark and cold when they headed home. That's when Zafian realized she had lost both rings.

They searched up and down the path until dark but never found the rings.

Several days later, Moore was jogging along the canal. Something caught her eye - a faint, dull bit of metal.

"I thought it was a washer in the dirt," she said. "I almost didn't pick it up."

She took the ring to a jeweler, who cleaned it up. He told her it was an $800 diamond ring. She slipped it on her finger. It fit perfectly.

Lucky me, she thought.

Two years later, two soccer moms were talking on the sidelines.

"Where did you lose your ring?" Moore asked.

"The Highline Canal," Zafian replied.

"Where on the canal?"

"Near Mineral."

"That's where I found a ring," Moore said.

At the Red Starts' last game of the season, Moore brought the ring. She slipped it on Zafian's pinky. It fit perfectly.

"It's amazing this happened," Zafian said. "I honestly feel truly blessed and thankful to have crossed her path."

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2002

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Cool!

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2002

that's a great story. And no mention of the husband. LOL

-- Anonymous, December 01, 2002