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Andrew Frank and Hayley Plack talk about their engagement and the day when Hayley lost her engagement ring at Hayley apartment in Washington. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

By John Woodrow Cox December 24, 2014 Follow JohnWoodrowCox

She got off at the next stop and called her fiance, Andrew Frank. On Thanksgiving, 22 days earlier, he had dropped to one knee and presented her with a 1.1 carat oval diamond that belonged to his grandmother. "Mommas," as Frank called her, had left it to him so that one day he could slip it on the finger of the woman he pandora charms loved.

The engagement ring that Hayley Plack lost that was later returned. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

And now it had slipped off.

But maybe it hadn't, Plack told herself. Maybe she had forgotten to put it on that morning, and it remained on her night table. Frank, a hospital rehab technician, didn't answer the call. He was asleep in her Adams Morgan apartment.

Plack, 27, took a train back to Farragut North, where she first got on. She searched the platform. Nothing. She rushed up the escalator to the street, retracing her path back to the bus stop. Nothing. She hailed pandora jewelry 70% off clearance a cab and on the way home sent an e mail to her boss at the National Gallery of Art, where she works as a program assistant: "I will be in late today. I'm dealing with something at home."

She burst through the bedroom door. "Andrew" she shouted, "have you seen my ring?"

Not on the night table. Not in the sheets. Not between the mattress and box spring. Not under the bed. Not on the hardwood floor. Not inside the lining of her black puffy jacket with a hole in the pocket pandora sale that fleetingly offered her hope.

She sobbed. Frank, 32, tried to soothe her anguish.

Maybe someone would find it, he said. And maybe, somehow, that person would find them. "Not everyone in the world is a criminal," he told her.

Andrew Frank and Hayley Plack are seen moments after he proposed at her parents' home in Baltimore on Thanksgiving night. She is wearing the ring later lost and recovered. (Family Photo)

But Frank didn't believe his own words, and he didn't say what he really believed.

"It's gone," he thought. "Forever."

'Let me see the ring'

At almost the same moment Plack called Frank, a slender British man with glasses pandora outlet emerged from an apartment building four doors away from hers.

Siranjan Kulatilake, 55, walked down his steps, and there, on the sidewalk, he spotted a diamond ring.

The band was so small he wondered if it belonged to a child. Puzzled, Kulatilake hooked the ring onto a lanyard that held his keys. Then the part time dog walker headed to Dupont Circle where a pair of Shih Tzus were waiting for their morning ramble.

As Bonnie and Buster sniffed at bushes and fire hydrants, Plack and Frank were methodically scanning the sidewalk between their front door and the bus stop, passing Kulatilake's building over and over.

They posted pleas for help on Craigslist and a local blog. They called the police and filled out a report. They called pawn shops and hoped a thief might have already sold it. They called the insurance company and imagined how suspicious their story must sound.

The couple had met three years earlier. They went on countless ice cream dates (chocolate for him; anything for her) and quickly adopted each other's passions (his for the Orioles; hers for museums).

Before he proposed, Frank asked Plack if she wanted a new stone instead of his grandmother's diamond. She insisted on the heirloom.

Now, suddenly, Plack dreaded the holiday parties that she had so long looked forward to. Let me see the ring, people would ask. She would have nothing to show them.

Even worse, pandora rings canada she would have to explain what had happened to Frank's mother, who pandora jewelry treasured the ring just as much as she and Frank did. There was a love story in its facets.

When Frank's grandparents married in the late 1930s, his grandfather, Bill Williams, couldn't afford an engagement ring for his wife, Genevieve. Years later, after a career as a federal auditor, he became friends with a gemologist at the Smithsonian. Williams told the man to find him something special before the couple's 40th anniversary.

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