Wife Devastated After Losing Grandparents' Wedding Rings, But Kind Stranger Returns Them
It was a typical summer day when 28-year-old Diana Kokoreva had a heartwrenching lunch break that she will never forget. She sat outside a coffee shop in St. Andrew Square in Edinburgh, Scotland, for a break before returning to work nearby.
On her finger were Kokoreva’s cherished wedding rings, custom-made from her husband’s grandparents’ rings.
“I was having a nice lunch and took the rings off to put some hand cream on and put them on my dress as I sat there,” Kokoreva recalled.
“I realized it was time to get back to work, but forgot about the rings so just stood up.”
Kokoreva didn’t notice her rings were missing until she was back at work.
Kokoreva’s hand felt naked, and her stomach dropped when she realized what was missing, and worse yet — that her rings were probably gone forever.
She raced back to the coffee shop, and store employees helped her search the ground and surrounding area with intensity.
But they had no luck — her custom-made rings with their priceless sentimental value had disappeared.
Kokoreva and her husband, Kirill Kokorev, were not willing to let the rings go without a fight. They alerted everyone they could on social media, and reached out to the Edinburgh Evening News in a desperate attempt to get their rings back.
“It’s so sad,” Diana told the Edinburg Evening News. “It’s not just about the money, it’s the memories.”
The couple had intended for the rings to be a family heirloom. They had dreamed that one day their children and grandchildren would cherish the heirloom as they did.
The couple held off on sharing the unfortunate news with Kokorev’s grandparents. They knew the loss would bring a great deal of pain to the man and woman who had entrusted them with the irreplaceable family heirloom.
Plus, they still held out hope that just possibly, the rings may surface.
It’s a good thing the couple waited, because on July 19, just days after the rings went missing, a mystery person turned the rings in to police.
“Some really good soul has handed them in to Stockbridge police,” said an extremely grateful 32-year-old Kokorev.
“We are so relieved,” he said. “Its a blessing from above, thank you very much for your kind words and support.”
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