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Reunited and It Feels So Good

By News of the Weird

Published Sept. 23, 2026

• A first edition of George Orwell's "1984" has been returned to the library ... 65 years late.

UPI reported that the Multnomah County Public Library in Portland recently received the return from an 86-year-old patron. The patron attached a note to the book, explaining that they meant to return it in 1958 after checking it out as a Portland State University student, they just "never got around to it."

But talk about excellent timing: The library just went fine-free.

• Sheriff's detectives in Kanawha County, West Virginia, made an odd discovery while executing a search warrant on an impounded vehicle in February: a 1965 class ring from Needham Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, bearing the initials "M.P."

Their investigation determined the owner was one Michael Pedneau, who told the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail that he only vaguely recalls losing the bling some 50 years ago, perhaps on a trip to Princeton, West Virginia.

"There's probably 40 or 50 of us [classmates] who get together monthly for lunch," Pedneau said.

"We're all old, so we enjoy swapping stories, and this is one I'll share with them. I'll show them the ring and we'll have some fun around it."

Reunited and It Feels So Good

By News of the Weird

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