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Last Wednesday, August 7, Connor Murphy was sitting on a blanket on Coral Street Beach in Beach Haven when he heard someone say someone had lost their wedding ring on the beach.

Knowing that he had a metal detector, Murphy took action shortly afterwards.

“I was out there for a while when I got a hit, and it turned out to be a paper clip,” he said. “But a few minutes later I got another hit, and it turned out to be the wedding ring.”

His next mission: find the owner. Murphy, a resident of Mount Pleasant, NY, walked down Pearl Street and knocked on doors.

He finally got lucky when Michael Keller, a summer guest, said the black tungsten ring belonged to his son-in-law, Michael Allegrini. As they started talking, they realized they had something in common.

Allegrini and his wife Alison live in Hawthorne, NY, a hamlet in Mount Pleasant.

BIG DISCOVERY: Connor Murphy uses his metal detector to track down and find the black tungsten wedding ring that was lost on the beach off Pearl Street last week.

“It’s a small world,” Murphy said. “As we talked, it turned out that people in my family were friends with people in her family. We grew up just two blocks away from each other.”

However, the Allegrinis have to wait until they get their ring back. Shortly after the ring was discovered to be lost, they set off on a trip to Bermuda.

“This was our second holiday,” said Alison. “When we got the call that the band had been found, we couldn’t believe it.”

The couple has been married for two years and is expecting their first child in November.

“We can’t wait to return to Beach Haven,” she said. —EE