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The news stunned everyone in the family, and soon that sick feeling in the pit of Kathleen's stomach was gone.
"I am so happy I found them," said Schaecher, who has three children, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild on the way. "If I had $1 million, it wouldn't have made me so happy."
As happy as she is, she admits she's afraid to wear the rings. She wasn't on the day I visited her home. They were tucked safely in a small black ring box because she's worried she'll lose them again.
I asked if she would put them on for a photograph, and she agreed. She gingerly took them out of the box and kissed them before sliding them onto her finger.
They're so loose on her fingers, no wonder she has been hesitant to wear them. But they haven't left her sight. She kept them in her purse when she went to church the next Sunday, terrified to leave them at home. She never took her grip off the purse, not even for communion.
Kathleen knows exactly what her husband would be saying right now: "What took you so long to clean the freezer?"
The truth is, she had cleaned it before. More than once.
"It's just amazing that I never saw them," she said.
Maybe the rings got caught somehow on one of the baskets inside or on the ledge of the metal thermometer that hangs on one of them. She has no idea.
"They were frozen in time," she said with a smile.End.
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