Missing prom photo album found 10 years later
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A lost and found story 10 years in the making had a happy ending for one woman.
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Randi Cerf lost a photo album containing her prom photos a decade ago.
“I was devastated about not having the photos because I wasn’t going to have them to show my kids,” Cerf said.
A 2005 graduate of Cleveland High School, Cerf says the last thing she remembers is losing the album somewhere around Ballard High School in Seattle. The former prom queen and class president thought she’d never see it again.
“It’s always been in back of my mind, like, ‘I wonder what ever happened to it?’” Cerf added.
This weekend, she received an email from SaraBeth Ross saying she’d found an album and was trying to find its rightful owner.
Ross wrote: "At the time, I was moving and picked it up with the hope of trying to find the owner. I am now moving again after 10 years in the same place and I just discovered the album again."
Ross didn’t know it belonged to Cerf. But using ticket stubs in the album and sleuthing on the Internet, she tracked down an email address of the prom's organizer, who happened to be Cerf.
“I actually shed a few tears,” Cerf said. “I started crying when I got off the phone with her. Like, wow. I'm getting my photos back?”
You might say it was serendipity. Cerf, who attends Washington State University, happened to be home for the weekend.
The long lost album means just as much to Cerf’s parents who chaperoned the prom.
“I never made it to my prom and to be invited to go to our daughter's, it was like my first prom, with my wife and my daughter,” father Ronald Coleman explained.
Cerf is ecstatic her memories are back in her possession. But she’s even more touched the woman who found the album went through such lengths to find her.
“I asked, ‘Can I buy you dinner or do anything for you?’ And she said no, she told me to turn around and buy someone else something, coffee, help make someone else's day,” Cerf recounted. “I just thought that was beautiful.”
They took a picture together to commemorate the moment. It’s another memory Cerf said she’ll cherish forever.
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