This one's a little different, and Sophie, 31, a bartender at a quiet piano bar in New Orleans, will be the first to tell you it still messes with her head. An elderly woman named Dolores came in alone every Friday for six months, ordered a gin fizz, and talked Sophie's ear off about her late husband. One night Dolores slid a gold band across the bar and said, "He would have loved you, and so do I." Sophie tried to give it back — twice. (Dolores told her she'd just leave it on the sidewalk outside.) It lives in Sophie's jewelry box now, next to her own grandmother's earrings. She said telling the story still makes her cry a little, and she's a bartender in New Orleans — her tear ducts are basically made of steel at this point.