{"id":31423,"date":"2022-09-26T05:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=31423"},"modified":"2022-09-26T05:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:02:24","slug":"teachers-and-lost-engagement-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2022\/09\/teachers-and-lost-engagement-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers And Lost Engagement Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last month, a woman in Denver\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kdvr.com\/news\/local\/weeks-later-missing-diamond-ring-returned-to-owner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>lost the engagement ring<\/b><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">her fianc\u00e9 gave her before he passed away a while back.\u00a0 So she was devasted.\u00a0 But luckily, some dude found it in the mud . . . literally, his first name is Dude.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He&#8217;s a bartender named Dude Olguin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>(Ol-geen.)<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 He gave the ring back and refused a reward.\u00a0 He said he just hopes they&#8217;re lifelong friends now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The place where he works was actually her fianc\u00e9&#8217;s favorite bar, but they never met.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><b><i>(Here&#8217;s a\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nshrXu8JycWMcoCyF8qKydBhLnqix5cE78tCw14DNoBCEKwfwtSdGPBCjShn1REYl&amp;id=100063830361113\"><b><i>photo<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.)<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here&#8217;s the impact just one amazing teacher can have:\u00a0 A guy in Sacramento named Jamil Jan Kochai came to the U.S. as a kid and didn&#8217;t speak English.\u00a0 But his second-grade teacher somehow\u00a0<\/span><a 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