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The only thing that reminds her of her husband, the old woman looking for the diamond ring she lost in the hospital

2024-06-24 11:21:23Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The only thing that reminds her of her husband, the old woman looking for the

Faye Bauman was wearing her diamond ring when she fell and broke her hip.

It was June last year and she was 85 years old. At North Florida Hospital in Gainesville, she removed some jewelry, including the ring, and gave it to a nurse.

After the operation, while recovering in a rehabilitation center, she realized that she had left the hospital without her jewelry - including the diamond engagement ring from the love of her life.

She could still remember the look in his eyes when he gave her the ring, they had met at a party. He saved up to buy her the ring. A half carat diamond in white gold.

One day he appeared in her office and got down on one knee. He looked stunning in his navy uniform. She said yes, slipping the ring onto her finger.

Fifty-six years later, in a younger generation of yellow gold, that diamond disappeared from the hospital. Faye Bauman wanted to know why.

For nearly 12 months, she and her daughter tried to find answers. They spoke to at least four hospital officials. Bauman filed a police report, which classified the missing jewelry as grand theft.

But they got no answer. The jewelry seemed to be gone forever. By May 2024, they say, no one had offered to fix the situation.

Bauman spoke to the media about her difficult situation. A CNN reporter spoke with the hospital and police department and waited several days for a response.

Meanwhile, during numerous interviews Bauman told her story. She said she never expected to see her diamond ring again. But she realized this was a chance to talk about something more important: the man who gave her the ring.

"I want to tell you, I was not a princess when I met him," she said. "Tom made me a princess."

She has wonderful memories of their marriage. But the last few years were not the same. Before he and Faye were married, Tom took care of his sick mother. This experience strengthened his habit of serving others.

Day after day, for most of their marriage, he brought Faye breakfast in bed. He would bring a flower from the yard and place it in a small Waterford vase that he placed on her breakfast tray.

Faye was divorced with three young daughters when she met Tom, and Tom treated the girls as if they were his own.

Tom and Faye were married for 47 years. She was a mental health counselor and he worked in the Navy Supply Corps. After the Navy he got his contractor's license.

They continued their long romance from Florida to Rhode Island, from London to Istanbul and back to Florida. She admired his good looks.

Tom took care of Faye until he couldn't anymore. In his fifties, something went wrong with his mind. First it was dementia, then Parkinson's disease.

This continued for more than 20 years. He was her husband, but the man she had married was only a memory. He asked to be moved to a nursing home and she let him go. Sometimes she would wake up in the middle of the night and drive to the nursing home and get into bed with him.

"I don't want to die," he told her.

"Oh, he was very handsome."

As Faye Bauman remembered her husband, memories were returning to the case of the missing ring. The situation appears to have changed in the days after a CNN reporter asked about the jewelry.

She took him by the hand, kissed him and said the Lord's prayer. It felt like angels were filling the room. She was praising God as she heard Tom take his last breath.

Nothing is forever, at least not here on earth. She wore that diamond ring for another seven years. And then, like Tom, she was gone.

"You know," Faye said, "we had a wonderful life."

Imagining the old Tom, the one who knelt before her that day in 1967. She expected to see him again./CNN

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