Lisa Stump

My name is Lisa Stump.

I live in Andover, Massachusetts, and this is my story.

On New Year's Eve in 2009, I went to my ring box to put on my engagement ring, and to my horror, I realized that I had lost the ring at some point during the previous seven days.

The ring was expensive and had belonged to my husband's grandmother, and I was devastated.

So I went on this quest to see if there was anything I could do to find this ring, and I did get a little obsessive.

I filed the police report.

I placed ads in the paper and on Craigslist.

I bought a metal detector.

I went to a hypnotist.

I searched for this ring everywhere I could think of.

I put up posters in all the places I had been.

I talked to everybody.

I just did everything I could.

Now, it's getting a little discouraged, but there had been a lot of snow that year, and I thought maybe when the snow piles melted at the edges of these parking lots where I had been that maybe I could find it.

So one day in March, there was so much rain that the schools were closed that day, and I had all the kids in the car, and I went to the supermarket, and I went over to the big snow pile near where I had parked my car,

And I looked down and I saw something shiny.

And I got out of the car and I went over to it.

And it was a diamond ring.

And I was so excited.

And I leaned over and I picked it up.