Reading through the Getaway planning thread and reading "guest Cooper's post, prompted me to come back to read about my lost daughter. Nearing end of this thread and I remembered something I thought I'd share.

From: VirginiaTam - PM
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:13 PM

I reached up and noticed the left earring was missing. Andie bought them for me while on a mission trip to Mexico when she was 13 (I think). She worked so hard and did without birthday and Christmas gifts for the sake of going on that trip. And now I have lost one of the earrings she bought for me.

I forgot to come back in here and say that the earring found its way back to me about a month later. I sent a picture of the remaining earring around work, explained that I lost and where it might be (between office and the bus stop some 500 yards away, up one road and through a car park). Also explained its significance to me.

Guess who found it. A very young male temp worker. He hadn't seen my email as a temp he didn't have an email account. He just found it about halfway between office and bus stop and thought someone at work might know to whom it belonged.

Now how likely is a young man (early 20 something) to
1. notice a not shiny (about dime sized) earring lying on the pavement?
2. bother to pick it up and bring it into work?
3. remember by the time he got there to put it in lost property?

The earring just wanted to come back to me.