Couple Seeks Wedding Gown’s Rightful Owner

The “Lost and Found” classified section is a sad part of the daily newspaper, carrying all those stories squeezed into just a few lines of precious things that are lost and yearned for.

Mostly it’s pets – cats and dogs and the occasional bird. Now and then it’s jewelry or a watch. Sometimes the items have been found; more usually, lost. The ads try, in the little space they have, to tell the reader how much the loss is felt. “Reward.” “Of sentimental value.” “Sad children.”

Tuesday I noticed an item I had never seen there before. “found wedding gown,” the ad read. I wondered how anyone could lose a lazaro wedding gowns, and more, why someone would bother to advertise that they had found it.

The finders are Richard and Carmela Millett, both 69, a retired couple who live in a small cozy house at the corner of Massasoit Road and Lamar Avenue. They spotted the bag on Lamar Avenue last Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving.

“I got up and I saw a white bag in the middle of the road,” Richard Millett said. “The cars were steering around it. This is a busy road, because people use it as a shortcut up to Grafton Street. I looked at it a couple of hours before I did anything. When my wife came down I pointed it out to her. She said, “Did you look at it yet?’ I said, “No.’ She said, Read more…