A woman has appealed for the help of sweet-toothed shoppers in tracking down her missing wedding ring.
Dawn ‘Sis’ Monroe, owner of Sis Sweets Cookies & Cafe in Leavenworth, Kansas, believes the diamond ring, worth $4,000 (£3,200), may accidentally made its way into her cookie dough while she was working at the shop.
In a post on Facebook, she wrote: ‘Bonus if you buy cookies today. My diamond is missing. It is not required of me to wear gloves when I baked.
‘My heart is beyond broken. It’s been on my hand for 36 years.
‘If you happened find it, I would forever be in debt if you would return it.
‘It’s a marquis cut. I’m sorry if you find it but I don’t take my ring off for anything.’
Monroe later told the local press: ‘I looked down at my hand, and the centre diamond was gone. We went back to the kitchen and looked around.
‘I was crying, and all [my husband] could say was, “You still have me”, which made it all a little better.’
Though perhaps something of a Hail Mary, such appeals have been known to enjoy some success.
Earlier in February, a ring that travelled almost halfway across the UK in the pocket of a set of hospital scrubs was returned to its distraught owner.
Consultant anaesthetist Radhika Ramasamy at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in Bury St Edmunds described then how she had placed the ring in her pocket before performing a procedure on a patient back in December last year.
She said: ‘I meant to put the ring back on afterwards but ended up doing another procedure and forgot about it.
‘It wasn’t until the evening of the next day that I realised it was missing and then it was the weekend so I didn’t report it to my facilities team until Monday.
‘To be honest I never expected to get it back as I thought it would be crushed in the machinery at the laundry.’
Five days later, it was discovered by an anaesthetics registrar in a pair of newly laundered scrubs at the Royal Free Hospital in London, more than 100 miles away.
Shah said: ‘It’s nice to feel part of a bit of a little miracle. I’m delighted the ring has been reunited with Radhika.’
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