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It was on a spring morning in 1968, in the village of Seagrave, Leicestershire, England. 21-year-old Dave Radley was picking strawberries to earn money behind a friend’s father’s home when his favorite new gift was lost. It was a gold ring that he’d received just weeks earlier. 

When the ring slipped from his finger that morning, Dave was very very shocked and upset. The gold ring had been a birthday gift from his mother, and he knew she had spent months paying for it. “My family wasn’t too rich in those days and I spent hours searching for it on the rows we had been,” Dave said. “My mother wasn’t angry with me. She was just more unhappy because of how upset I was.”

Dave is now a 75-year-old retired engineer who still lives in Leicestershire. He recently got a call from his old friend’s younger brother, Peter. He inherited(继承) the land their father once owned. Peter told Dave that a young man with a metal detector(探测器) had come to his strawberry fields. He used his machine there. He found the gold ring after knowing the story of Dave’s missing ring. The ring was unharmed except for a tiny scratch(刮痕).

“When I got the call from Peter, I couldn’t quite believe it—the joy I felt in that moment is indescribable,” said Dave. “The crazy thing is Peter still owns the land, otherwise, none of this would have ever happened.” The ring still fits! Dave couldn’t be happier to have it back on his finger where it belongs.

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