An Illinois woman recently got her high school class ring back after more than two decades. Laura Durham of Belvidere, Ill., remembers taking off the class ring, and several others, just before she got into a car accident in July 1984.

The jewelry was later discovered by Bob Windsor, who worked at the salvage yard in South Beloit, Ill., where Durham's car was taken after the crash. He added the rings to his coin collection, intending to find the owner someday.

After 22 years, Windsor's co-worker Sherrie Hein noticed his collection. She spotted the ring, with Durham's maiden name engraved along with her high school name.

Hein recruited her teenage daughter to track Durham down and return the rings.

Durham says she can't describe the feeling of getting the rings back ... and that receiving them was like "turning back the hands of time," she said in an email to the Leader-Telegram newspaper of Eau Claire.