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A Texas woman said she lost her wedding ring and one of her family’s dogs in a house fire on Oct. 10
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She shared that she went back to the rubble of her home one day and miraculously found her wedding ring in an “unbelievable” spot
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The woman said that she initially thought that a metal detector group that planned to search for the ring was behind the find, but they hadn’t even gone out to the area yet
A Texas woman who made it out alive after a house fire destroyed her home thought everything, including her wedding ring, had been destroyed — but luck was on her side.
Nacole Eaton told local news outlet KLTV that the fire burned down her home on Oct. 10, leaving the family without several of their valuables, including Christmas ornaments with their children’s handprints on them and other priceless items.
“After the fire is over and you come back and see this, it’s hard because you’ve lost everything…,” Eaton told the outlet. “… We had a board that measured our children’s height and we traveled with it to every house that we’ve lived in and that’s stuff that you can’t get back.”
In the aftermath, there were two special things in particular that Eaton “wanted back the most”: one of the family’s dogs and her wedding ring — which she wore on her finger for 22 years.
Eaton said that a family friend offered to reach out to a local metal detecting group, the Wood County Metal Detecting Club, in order to help her find the wedding ring, which she initially believed was buried amongst the charred rubble of her home.
However, when she returned to the home to survey the damage and see if there was anything left to salvage, she miraculously found one of the items she had longed to see.
“Right here [on the sink counter], in just a pile of ash, there was my ring. Sitting there, and I’m like, ‘There’s no way,’ ” Eaton recalled to KLTV.
“I grabbed my ring and thought, ‘This must be the metal detecting guys who left this here!,’ ” she added.
She said she called the group only to find out that they never made it out to the site yet, but had been planning to go there later. The call was a surprising one, especially considering that the East Texas woman searched the sink area several times prior to that moment and had not once spotted the ring.
“And I was just like, ‘How is this possible?’ So, it’s literally a miracle, we’ve asked people that we know and no one has come out,” she said.
She said it was even more surprising that she was able to find it so quickly after returning to the site on a random day.
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“Just to come one day and for it to be right there,” Eaton said, “It’s just unexplainable…that was a God wink.”’
She said that the find gave her renewed strength to keep moving forward and stay positive with her family, and the additional help from friends and family, who have donated clothes and other items, has been a huge help.
“Everytime I look at it,” Eaton said, “I’m like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna come out of this even better than before.’”
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