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She lost her engagement ring on a tropical beach. Weeks later, a stranger began digging.
By Théoden Janes, The Charlotte Observer
© Courtesy Michele Arias/TNS/TNS
Michele Arias s original Facebook post.
If only clouds and rain had hung over the beach on Dec. 11 in Costa Rica, like the forecast had predicted, none of this would have happened.
Sure, Doug Cotty and his brand-new fiancee Michele Arias might still have decided to hang out on Playa Chaman, and might still have spotted the baby olive ridley sea turtles nesting in the sand.
But the Charlotte couple would never have needed to borrow a bottle of sunscreen from the staff at their hotel. She never would have needed to take off the engagement ring to apply that lotion and never would have tucked the ring into the front pocket on Cotty s tank top for safe keeping. ....

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