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After 15 years, a wedding gown bought by Gina Mignone in 1993 for $1,900 got a second chance when she married Art Smith. She abandoned the gown in the dress shop when her previous fiance broke their engagement three months before the wedding.

"I knew you'd be back for it," DiCarlo told Mignone, according to Monday's editions of The Star-Ledger of Newark.

DiCarlo, whose Hollywood Bridal Fashions is in Union, remembered Mignone calling her in tears when her fiance broke their engagement three months before the wedding.

Mignone had paid for the $1,900 Cinderella gown, but never came in for the final fitting.

Over the years, DiCarlo told the newspaper, she had given away hundreds of dresses, including gowns for weddings that were scrapped. But not Mignone's.

DiCarlo had stuffed the bow and the sleeves with paper so they would hold their shape, and wrapped the gown in plastic. She left it hanging in a corner of her basement storeroom.

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