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Sitting in traffic on State Route 3 last week, Lisa Shelton did what she always does. When she noticed a man holding a sign asking for help, she reached toward her car door for some change.
Coming up with nothing, she grabbed change from her wallet, handed it out the window and went on her way.
When she got back to work, she panicked.
Earlier last Wednesday, when she put lotion on her hands, she'd put all her rings in her wallet's change purse. When she went to put them back on, they were all there.
Except one.
Her wedding ring, inscribed with the words, "To the love of my life," by Robert, her husband of five years, was gone.
"I thought I'd taken all the rings out of the coins," she said. "But the wedding band wasn't there."
Shelton, who lives in Stafford County , immediately went back out to Route 3. The man was gone.
Meanwhile, Andy Foster had left his post on Route 3 to go warm up at a friend's house.
Foster, 43, has been homeless for a while, after living arrangements with a friend, then a girlfriend didn't work out. He hasn't worked in three years, since he was injured in a wreck. Then he lost a finger in a chain-saw accident.
Source: Fredericksburg.com
