Debra McKenna lost her then-boyfriend Shawn McKenna’s high school class ring in a department store bathroom in Portland, Maine, 47 years ago. It wasn’t a deal-breaker for their relationship; Debra and Shawn later married and spent 40 years together. Shawn passed away in 2017, and the lost class ring was all but forgotten. Until one day when an unlikely character went metal detecting in a forest in Finland. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.
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