It took more than 25 years, but a missing wedding ring has finally been found and returned!

Linda Matti said her husband's ring slipped off his finger while he was a patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and even though she looked everywhere for it, they never found it.

It wasn't long after the ring went missing that plumber Dale Grobe found it when he unplugged the hospital's sewer main. It sat in the lost and found for six months but was never claimed, so Grobe took the ring home and his wife, Kathie, wore it for the next 25 years.

Flash forward to a couple weeks ago- Grobe was at a friend's party when his wife met a man whose parents had the same names as those inscribed on the gold band she wore.

They quickly realized he was the son of the person who lost their ring and handed the ring over.  Amazingly, the ring has found its way home again after 25 years.

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