Sweden: Wedding Ring 'Found on Carrot' After 16 Years
A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.
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| Lena Paahlsson says the ring was on a small carrot she was about to discard |
Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, she told the paper.
Although the ring no longer fits, she hopes to have it enlarged so she can wear it again.
Mrs Paahlsson and her family live on a farm near Mora in central Sweden.
She
took the ring off to do some Christmas baking with her daughters, but
it disappeared from the work surface where it had been left, she
explained to Dagens Nyheter.
The
family searched everywhere and years later took up the tiling on the
floor during renovations, in the hope of finding the ring.
It
was not until 16 years later when Mrs Paahlsson was pulling up carrots
in her garden that she noticed one with the gold band fastened tightly
around it.
"The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible," her husband Ola said to the newspaper.
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| Lena Paahlsson and husband Ola say it is incredible that the ring has been found |
The
couple believe the ring fell into a sink back in 1995 and was lost in
vegetable peelings that were turned into compost or fed to their sheep.
"I had given up hope," Mrs Paahlsson told Dagens Nyheter, adding that she wanted to have the ring adjusted to fit her.
"Now that I have found the ring again I want to be able to use it," she said.
