Class ring lost in Maine shows up in Finland 47 years later

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Nearly 50 years after a woman lost her boyfriend's class ring in a Maine department store, it turned up buried six inches deep in the floor of a forest in Finland.

"I was shocked. And didn't really believe that it would be his. I needed to see it," Debra McKenna, the owner of the ring told CNN of the surprise discovery. "How could it be so far away?"But the story of how the ring journeyed from 1973, Maine, to 2020, Finland, is a mystery.It belonged to her high school boyfriend, Shawn,, and he gave it to her before he left Morse High School for college.

Marko Saarinen, a 38-year-old sheet metalworker, came across an item that he figured must have been toy from a vending machine. The markings on the ring -- Morse High School, the year, 1973, and the initials, "S.M." -- gave him clues he'd need to try and track the owner down.and quickly received a response.

"We had no other males in the class with those same initials," one of the administrators of the class Facebook page, Kathleen Nadeau, told CNN. "I believe there were about 216 of us. There was a female in our class with the same initials, but from the photos we knew it was a man's ring."

 

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