A couple of years ago Nancy's grandmother died and she became the owner of a beautiful diamond ring. It was a sentimental Christmas gift from grandmothers estate and a cherished memento. She wore it and loved it. The following June it simply disappeared!! After questioning the children and hearing their denials about any information regarding the ring, after a very thorough search of the entire house, it was decided that it must have been stolen.
During that same period of time a new maid had been hired and she became the prime suspect. Who else had access to the house? No one wanted to even think that lovely woman was capable of such an act or even imagine confronting her with such an awful accusation. Nancy sadly gave it up as gone for good, never expecting to see it ever again.
Time past, life rolled on. The family made several trips to Little Rock, to Tulsa and of course crawled all over Dallas during the course of their every day lives. The girls attended their events, school, parties, etc. The ring was not mentioned but she thought about it often.
The following February the family took a vacation to Hawaii. After several days in that Paradise their airplane landed back in Dallas at 3 a.m. They were standing in the aisle of the plane alongside hundreds of other weary travelers waiting to deboard when Philip heard a "ping" and glanced down at the very crowded floor. He picked up the tiny shiny bauble and turned to Nancy, "does this belong to you?" IT WAS HER LONG LOST RING! How did it get on the floor of an airplane in the middle of the night??
Evidently one of the girls had been admiring it 8 MONTHS before and put it in her CHILD-SIZE BACKPACK for safe keeping. It was promptly forgotten.
That ring had traveled hundreds of miles in that backpack, in and out of cars, school playgrounds, friends homes, gymnasiums, beaches of Hawaii and several airplanes. It worked it's way out of a tiny creased pocket on that airplane.
Amazing!
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