7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help We try to post stories and
comments from our readers each week. Send your story to newsletter@tias.com. 
With everyone enjoying the outdoors and vacations, we're a little short on new
stories. For now, we'll republish some interesting stories from past issues,
but we sure would love to hear new stories!

Reprint from 2003: Hidden Things - We get quite a few stories like this one. 
People pass on and relatives later on find special hidden objects in unlikely
places.  --- My mother in law died in 1973.  At that time we could not find
her wedding ring and presumed it had been lost.  In 1974 we brought my
husband's father to live with us and some of his furniture, like the bedroom
set he had lived with for 50 years.  Years passed and granddad died.  Around
1997 we decided to repaint the ceilings in the guest room.  Before moving
things back in to the 'guest room' which contained the old bedroom set, I
decided to scrub, wax and polish all the furniture.  Granddad had remodeled a
vintage 1920s dressing table into two night stands and a separate mirror many,
many years before he moved in with us. As I was moving one of the night stands
back into place after what I thought was a good cleaning, i.e., removing
drawers, dusting and putting them back, I heard a thunk.  Thinking I had
broken something, I pulled out the drawer again, but could see nothing wrong. 
I looked into the slot the drawer came from and saw a box built to fit behind
the drawer.  Yes, you guessed it. The missing wedding ring was in the box,
tied to the corner of a hankie.  Also in the box was the name of the "venetian
blind man", an official looking paper script for 3-cents, a school photo of my
husband taken probably 60 years previously and nothing else.  My husband had
no knowledge or memory of the hidden box and no one else was alive who might
have.....Joan in Scottsdale, AZ

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--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-2
 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)