A YEAR LATER!
Last July, Megan and Chris Beane took some friends out on their boat to Wolfe Island along the Stono River in South Carolina. They were cooling off in the water, when one of their friends asked about Megan's ring, as he was currently in the market for an engagement ring for his soon-to-be fiance.
Megan described the moment she lost the ring, saying,
Silly me, I just took it off my hand to show him, and I actually dropped it before he was able to pick it up.
They immediately searched the water where she was standing and continued to search for the next three days ... before finally giving up.
Megan said she was so upset about losing the ring that she refused to stop at the island again after the incident.
Then this summer, while another family was enjoying a day out on the same river, Ed Pardee took his son (appropriately named Rivers) to look for shark teeth. Rivers didn't find any shark teeth that day, but he did find Megan's engagement ring, almost a year after she first dropped it in the river.
After they took the ring home, Ed's wife posted a picture of it to a Facebook group where her post was seen by the very friend who Megan had attempted to show the ring to on the day she lost it. The friend passed the Pardee's information along to Chris, who was able to verify that it was in fact his wife's lost ring.
Shortly after, he took the chance to propose to his wife a second time with the newly found ring, much to her surprise.
Megan told WCBD News,
Whenever he showed me the ring, I thought it was maybe like a new ring he had purchased, but then he was like, here's your ring, and I said no, no way… I stood there and looked at it for a second in complete disbelief.
Chris and Megan were extremely thankful to the Pardee family for their generosity in reuniting them with the lost ring when they easily could have kept it or sold it.
Ed Pardee said that he was ...
... just being a good person and wanted to show my kids to do the right thing.
I'm sure that the Beane's gratitude is something that 9-year-old Rivers won't soon forget.
Here's the local news report:
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