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Debra McKenna forgot a class ring gifted by her then fiancé in a department store in Maine in 1973. A worker found it 47 years later with a metal detector, buried in a forest in Finland.

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Fun Fact: Debra McKenna forgot a class ring gifted by her then fiancé in a department store in Maine in 1973. A worker found it 47 years later with a metal detector, buried in a forest in Finland.

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