The tale of the treasure in the trash

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Hospital custodian who refused to quit helped family find discarded jewelry

It’s a classic needle-in-a-haystack story, except the needle the Myers family was looking for was their mother’s diamond rings and pearl bracelet.

And the haystack was a mountain of hospital waste in a Pennsylvania landfill.

It was the faith of a good Samaritan that carried the day when everybody else wanted to give up. The lesson, Frank Dabney told TODAY co-host Meredith Vieira on Friday, is in the words he lives by: “Don’t give up five minutes before the miracle.”

Dabney is a custodian at Paoli Hospital, where the Myers family had misplaced the jewelry. He had come along to help with the search because it was the right thing to do. And, after some seven hours dressed in plastic suits under an unseasonably fierce sun, he kept them going.

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