Diamond found in the sole of a shoe, traveled to Florida and back to PA

Cindy Ware of Chester County realized a couple of months ago, the diamond from her ring, passed down through her late husband’s family, was gone.

“I still don’t believe it. It’s in my purse now, but I still don’t believe it,” she said.

Turns out, it just went to Florida with her neighbor, riding quietly in the sole of one of his water shoes.

“Went down there, wore them, wore them on the beach, to the pool, and when I saw it in my shoe I assumed I picked it up in Florida probably at the pool,” Coleman said.

Coleman, who doesn’t use a last name, thought it was glass or a little fake bedazzled gem, but a jeweler in Fort Lauderdale told him otherwise.

“He said ‘yes, it’s a diamond from the 50s or 60s. An older cut, nice coloring.’ And said ‘this is a good piece of jewelry,'” Coleman said. “That night I posted a picture of it in my shoe on Facebook because I thought it was an interesting amusing story to have a diamond in the sole of my shoe. Thank you Paul Simon.”

Minutes later, a friend back in the Kendal Crosslands Community in Chester County, where Coleman lives said she thought she knew who the diamond belonged to and on Valentines Day. Cindy confirmed it.

“A diamond in a swimming pool to be found at all is impossible,” Cindy said.

She believes at one of her pool exercise classes, the diamond fell out of the ring. Coleman plays water volleyball in the same pool and must have landed down on the diamond to perfectly fit in the sole of his shoe.

“Too many things to have happened just right for me to even know where it was or how it was saved on that shoe,” Cindy said.

Cindy and Coleman were already neighbors and friends, but he is just so pleased that he was able to reunite her with the very special piece of her family history.

“To be able to add even a little bit more happiness there,” Coleman said, “Well, that’s really swell.”