Grateful fiancee gets her lost ring back

Sixteen days before her wedding, Sophia Antoun received a wonderful gift.

The engagement ring she lost two weeks ago was returned to her Thursday.

“I’m still struggling to believe it’s real,” said Antoun, 29, of Bexley, who will marry Justin Liu, 29, of New Albany, on Aug. 18. “I am very grateful.” Antoun lost her ring July 19 when she left her East State Street office Downtown to feed a parking meter. The ring slipped off her hand, and she and her co-workers frantically searched for it but couldn’t find it.

A security camera captured images of a man and woman walking along the sidewalk soon after Antoun had lost her ring. The woman reached down and appeared to scoop up something.

That woman called Antoun on Thursday to say she had the ring. She had seen a flier Antoun had posted seeking its return; it included Antoun’s phone number.

“She asked for the person who lost the ring,” Antoun said. The woman told Antoun she had found it as she walked to lunch.

On Thursday, Antoun and Liu met the woman, whom she declined to identify, and the man who also was in the video.

“She was unbelievably kind,” Antoun said. “We shed many tears. It was a beautiful moment.”

“You can put it as a closed case and a found object.”

No more wedding-bell blues. Sophia Antoun shows off her returned engagement ring. A good Samaritan returned it to her.