"This can't be real": Couple's unbelievable op-shop find
An Australian man has made an epic discovery in his local op shop.
Rob Klaric was browsing Lifeline's Mosman store on Sydney's north shore when he spotted two framed photos of himself and his wife, which they had lost while moving house more than 30 years ago.
The photos were taken in 1988 when he and Leonie, his wife of 35 years, were backpacking across Europe.
But turns out luck was on their side and they were reunited with their prized possession more than three decades later.
"I'm still buzzing with this. I mean, what's the chances?" he told 2GB's Ben Fordham.
"I've walked into a store and I see these pictures and I thought I was hallucinating."
The photos hold special meaning for the couple, as it was taken in his mum's backyard when they went to visit her in Europe.
"We backpacked across Europe, [went] to my mother's place in the north of Italy – so the photos are iconic because it's [taken] in my mother's backyard and Mum's just passed away a few years ago now."
A year later, the couple got married, and the year following they had these images framed before they lost them in a move in 1993, when a removal company misplaced the boxes they were packed in.
"I still tremble because I thought, 'this can't be real'."
"The ironic thing is that my picture, apologies Leonie, mine was more expensive. It was $12 and hers was $8," he said.
Klaric wondered if his late mother had something to do with the special find.
"But look, it's got my mum, my beautiful old Italian mum, it's got her fingerprints all over it," he said.
"Because those pictures were right in the middle [of the shop], on the floor, you would have never seen it unless you walked through the store. And if it was on the left or the right you wouldn't have seen it.
"I think she's looking down from Heaven."
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