"Meant to be": Magical moment mum finds lost ring 15 years later
<p>Some stories are so unbelievable that it seems like divine intervention played a part in making them happen.</p>
<p>Samantha was only eight or nine years old when she lost a ring that her parents gave her for Christmas, only to miraculously find it 15 years later. </p>
<p>She recalled the remarkable story of her lost ring on <em>Nova 96.9's Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie</em>. </p>
<p>"So when I was about eight or nine, it was Christmas time, and we were holidaying up at Umina Beach Caravan Park," Samantha began.</p>
<p>"I was in the surf, and my mum and dad had bought me this beautiful little first diamond ring for Christmas, and I was sort of in the waves up to sort of my knees, and I thought, Oh, I better take my ring off and put it around my necklace, because if I get dumped or under the waves, I might lose it."</p>
<p>Samantha recalled that she was in the middle of taking her ring off when a "freak wave" came and knocked her over, causing her to drop the ring in the ocean.</p>
<p>"I'm crying... my mum's crying, we're all crying, and I lost the ring," she said.</p>
<p>15 years later she returned to the same beach with her own kids, when things took a turn for the better. </p>
<p>"My daughter's collecting shells, and she picks up this big shell, and I said, 'Oh, that's beautiful. Like, that's a big one. We don't find them up this way'," she told the radio hosts.</p>
<p>"And she said, 'Oh, hang on. I think there's like a creature or something in it'... So I said 'Put it down, put it down', and I picked it up and just make sure she wasn't going to get bitten or anything.</p>
<p>"And I looked inside, and my ring was inside the shell."</p>
<p>Samantha told the hosts that she remembered her mum giving her the ring and telling her "when you grow up and you have a daughter, you can give this to her."</p>
<p>"When we found it, I think I cried for like, a week, it's a story that we still don't believe."</p>
<p>Radio hosts Kate, Fitzy and Wippa were all in shock, with Kate telling the mum that the ring was "meant to be" with her. </p>
<p>"Well, the funny thing is, my mum, actually, at the moment, is palative," Samantha shared.</p>
<p>"She's very, very unwell, and out of everything that she does remember, she still remembers that story.</p>
<p>"She'll still say to me, 'don't you ever get rid of that ring'. And I'm like, my daughter's got it in a box at home, and she's not even allowed to wear it."</p>
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