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CNN- Talk about good karma.
Well-wishers from around the world are opening their wallets to a homeless man who returned a diamond engagement ring to its rightful owner, after she accidentally dropped it in his donation cup.
"I actually feel like I'm especially lucky to have this ring now. I loved it before. I loved it so much, but I love it so much more now. I feel like it has such great karma," Sarah Darling told CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien."
Darling who is from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was devastated when she realized she'd lost her ring.
She almost never takes it off, but it was giving her a bit of a rash so she did, zipping it in her coin purse for safe keeping.
Later, she absentmindedly emptied the contents of that purse into the collection cup of Billy Ray Harris, who is homeless and lives under a bridge in Darling's hometown.
It wasn't until the next day that she realized her ring was gone.
"It was horrible. It was such a feeling of loss," Darling said. "It meant so much to me beyond just the financial value."
She went back to look for Harris, but he was gone. She returned the next day and found him.
"I asked him ... 'I don't know if you remember me, but I think I gave you something that's very precious to me,' and he says, 'Was it a ring? Yeah, I have it, I kept it for you,'" Darling said.
She was floored
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Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Fortunately it worked out well for this guy in the end.
malaise
(269,022 posts)Billy Ray makes a good point re returning what is not yours
snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)tblue37
(65,391 posts)reconnected to his long-lost "baby sister," who saw the news story about him. But the fact that he said he didn't know whether he would actually get in touch with her or go to be with her, despite her fervent invitation for him to do so, suggests that there is more to his homelessness than a mere bout of bad luck.
I sure hope everything goes well for this good man, but once the media furor dies down, these story du jour folks, who are often homeless because of untreated chronic mental health issues or alcohol and drug addiction, end up as bad off or worse than before.
I think that "golden-voiced" man ended up in a bad way again once his story was no longer focused on.