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In 2009, during one fateful cast at her and husband’s favorite fishing spot, a prized anniversary ring slipped off Christina Handsaker’s right ring finger. She was gutted.
“I thought it hit the ground, and we looked but we never found it,” Christina said.
At that same well-worn Willow Lake fishing spot just two weeks ago, Christina glanced at the ground and spotted what she at first thought was a piece of metal amid the dirt.
There it was: Their anniversary ring, recovered 12 years after it was lost. It turned out to be the couple’s most prized catch at their longtime honey hole.
And if it seems hard to believe, it was for them, too.
“If I hadn’t been there, I would have never believed it,” said Tony Handsaker, Christina’s husband of 23 years. |
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The Klamath Falls couple first met at the old American Feed and Farm Supply on Washburn Way. Tony, 22 at the time and an employee, walked Christina, then 17, and her mom around the store asking if they needed help. Christina’s mom told her that Tony must have had a crush.
“I’m like, ‘OK mom, whatever,’” Christina said. “But I saw him and I thought he was kind of cute.”
She later learned that she went to church with Tony’s grandparents, who were trying to play a bit of matchmaker They had been telling him about the girl in the black lace dress.
Weeks later, Tony called Christina’s house, asked specifically for her and told her that part of their order was ready. But more importantly, because this was 1998, he asked: “Do you want to go see Titanic with me?” |
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