Balclutha woman Carol Creighton had given up on ever finding her lost eternity ring - until a friend dug up her vegetable garden.
"He said to me 'I think I've got a surprise for you'," Creighton said of her friend, Tom Dickson, when he handed her a bunch of carrots from her vegetable garden yesterday.
"He said 'what have you lost?'"
She saw the 82-year-old had a bit of dirt in his hands and the only thing she could think of was an eternity ring given to her by her mother.
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