Which is more suitable for this article,searched or had searched? Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small carrots and was about to throw them away. But something made her look closer, and she noticed a shining object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long­lost wedding ring.Pahlsson screamed so loudly that her daughter came running from the house. “She thought I had hurt myself，” says Pahlsson.Sixteen years earlier, Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring to cook a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters—then ten, eight, and six—had picked it up, but the girls said they hadnt. Pahlsson and her husband 17.________ (search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. “I gave up hope of finding my ring again，” she says. She never replaced it. Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got swept into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, where it remained until the carrots leafy top accidentally sprouted through it. For Pahlsson, its return was a wonder.