When Jeannine Van Ysseldyk realized her wedding and anniversary rings were missing, she didn’t panic—she bolted out of a restaurant before the check even hit the table.
Turns out, the rings had slipped off the night before while she was tossing spilled popcorn into the compost. By the time she figured it out, the garbage truck had already done its thing. Most people would’ve called it a lost cause.
Not Steve.
Her husband of 26 years showed up at the local dump the next morning, ready to dig through 18 metric tons of compost. Yes, compost. With help from a kind landfill worker and an excavator, Steve started sifting through the mess—until he spotted a familiar popcorn bag. Then, like a scene from a rom-com with a lot more garbage, he found one ring. Then the other.
Jeannine cried all the way home.
Because when someone’s willing to dig through literal trash for you, that’s not just love—it’s legendary.
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