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Lost Diamond Returned to Owner in Denver

Aired November 30, 2001 - 05:57   ET

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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now we have an update on a story we told you about earlier this week. Do you remember the story about the missing engagement ring? A woman was frantically looking for her lost diamond at the Denver airport. A man found the diamond but didn't know who the woman was who it belonged to.

Well now we have the follow up, and here's Heidi Collins from KUSA with that.

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HEATHER VLCHEK, DIAMOND RING OWNER: My stomach jumped into my throat. Very, very, very, almost sick about it.

HEIDI COLLINS, KUSA-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Sick that this is all Heather Vlchek has left of her diamond engagement ring only three weeks old.

VLCHEK: It's very, very, very large on my finger, and I haven't really had a chance to go and get it sized which is why it fell off in the first place.

COLLINS: After hours of searching, Heather, her fiance, Al, and her mother, Pat, went home. It wasn't until they watched the news that night that they thought there might be a chance the diamond wasn't lost for good.

VLCHEK: It's like, Heather, put on night news (ph) right now, I think they found your diamond.

COLLINS: It was Tim Leavitt who spotted the stone in a puddle of slush.

TIM LEAVITT, FOUND DIAMOND: How are you?

VLCHEK: Hi, I'm Heather.

LEAVITT: I'm Tim.

VLCHEK: Thank you, Tim, so, so, so much.

LEAVITT: You bet. (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

VLCHEK: I can't even tell you (UNINTELLIGIBLE). LEAVITT: How does that look to you?

VLCHEK: It looks -- it's...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my god.

VLCHEK: That is unbelievable.

COLLINS: And for Heather's fiance, a sigh of relief.

AL: And I don't know what I was going to do. I mean I couldn't afford to buy another, absolutely not.

COLLINS: Their gratitude to Tim Leavitt is immeasurable.

VLCHEK: This is nothing short of a miracle, absolutely. Thank you so much.

COLLINS: They believe, partly because of him, their marriage is sure to have a special sparkle.

VLCHEK: I cannot believe that. This is absolutely a blessing, absolutely. I feel like we are charmed. We've known forever that we're in this together.

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KAGAN: We'll have to see if he gets an invitation to the wedding. That happy ending of a story brought to us by Heidi Collins of our affiliate station KUSA in Denver.

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