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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