Woman loses wedding ring at airport, turns up in lost-and-found days later

SALT LAKE Town — A Salt Lake City woman is thanking who she calls a excellent stranger for locating and returning her lost wedding ceremony ring at the Salt Lake airport.

Valerie Cameron travels by plane for get the job done normally. She performs in the conference marketplace.

“I know when I can show up, how lengthy it’s heading to acquire me to get in line, I never hold out at the gate pretty long,” she reported.

Cameron stated she has a routine at Salt Lake Global down to a science, but she was distracted all through her final perform trip, which took put a several times after Thanksgiving. She was headed to Los Angeles Comic-Con.

“I experienced a small far more time to sit and wait around, and so I begun fiddling,” Cameron said.

She stated she go through a guide, listened to music, and made a decision to moisturize her palms.

“I just watched this video on social media that tells you about all the grime that we get in our wedding day rings from placing lotion and diverse items on our hands,” Cameron reported.

In one more uncharacteristic transfer, she took off her marriage ceremony ring — an emerald reduce cognac sapphire with white gold — and established it on her lap.

“Then my cell phone rang and I picked it up. Then I heard that we could board and I stood up, and I did not put my ring back again on my hand,” she mentioned.

When you go to the airport, there’s a great deal to hold track of. Where’s your gate? Any delays? Do you have all of your bags?

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Cameron did not know she had left it at the rear of at the gate until she obtained to L.A. She identified as a close friend who works at the airport and filed a claim on the internet.

“They did verify they did not locate it,” she stated. “‘I’ll permit you know at the time we locate a little something.’”

The newlywed hasn’t experienced the ring lengthy, but it’s her most prized possession. It will come from her relationship to her second partner. They met right after they had the two absent by means of divorce.

“He proposed with the most stunning diamond ring at any time. He did so wonderful,” Cameron claimed. “The detail is though, it just wasn’t for me.”

She, her partner, and her daughter created her existing ring jointly.

“Him and I and my daughter went to the jewellery shop, and we put in two hours pulling out distinct bands and diverse stones,” she mentioned.

She stated the ring symbolizes her receiving a second probability in life.

“We’re a bunch of weirdos, but we’re, like, our weirdos and I adore it and my ring represents that,” Cameron explained.

Practically one particular week afterwards, and with no updates, she experienced presented up hope, until finally a textual content arrived by way of from her mate at the airport.

“It has been just about seven times at this airport. Any individual turned it in. She claimed it came in overnight, so they really do not know who it was,” Cameron mentioned. “I simply cannot thank this man or woman.”

Cameron hopes the entire world bands collectively and follows the example the unknown traveler set.

“Somebody took the time to select it up off the ground, which I’m certain it was just less than the chair that I was sitting down on, and they took the time to turn it in somewhere, but they did not have to,” she explained. “They could’ve still left it there. They could’ve taken it for themselves. It is a rather ring. They could have gifted it to someone else, but they did not.”

She reported she’s grateful for the ideal stranger who did the correct issue.