Kyle Upham and his fiancée Kristen were browsing a jewelry store in Santa Barbara in 2004 — just before Kyle was deployed to Iraq for a second tour of duty—when a fellow shopper began to help them with their engagement ring purchase.
“I noticed there
was someone else in there, but didn’t give it much thought, and we started
looking at rings and whatnot, and he kept saying ‘Go bigger’ and I kept saying,
‘No look at the prices,'” Kyle recalls.
Kristen Upham, who
is now married to Kyle, says Kyle began talking with the stranger and realized
it was Paul Walker.
After Walker found
out that Upham was about to be deployed, he took matters into his own hands.
The couple left the store without the $9,000 ring, but a saleswoman called them
and told them to come back.
“One of the ladies
came out holding a bag and just said, ‘Here’s your ring.’ I think both of our
mouths dropped,” Kristen says.
The couple
suspected that the gift was Walker’s doing but the employees at the store
wouldn’t reveal the gifter. When the jewelry store clerk told her story on CBS
Monday, the Upham’s suspicions were confirmed.
“It’s still to
this day the most generous thing anyone has ever done for me,” Kristen says.
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