For a little while this morning on Reddit a Maine-related post was at the top of the front page, asking for help from the Maine Reddit community in finding the owners of a lost wedding band, found in a parking lot in Ellsworth at some point in the past few days. The inscription on the inside of the band read “Flirfin loves Doodle,” and Redditor TheJawsOfIce posted looking for the owner — the post garnered more than 700 comments in less than seven hours.

Thanks to a timely post on WKIT’s Facebook and an on-air mention, the owner of the ring was located within eight hours of the post appearing online. Guy Ortega, owner of Salon Bonifacio in Brewer and the “Doodle” in question, saw the post and immediately got in touch with WKIT saying the ring in question belonged to him.

“I lost the ring on Black Friday in the Reny’s parking lot in Ellsworth,” said Ortega, who contacted the Ellsworth Police Department when he discovered his ring was missing. “We were getting snow off the car and it just must have slipped off my hand somehow. I’m Doodle because my husband calls me doodlebug, and my husband is Flirfin.”

Ortega only has the first name and hometown of the finder of his ring — his name is Winston, and he lives in Oakland, California. Winston will be mailing the ring back to Maine in the next 24 hours.

“My husband and I have only been married for a month and two days, but already that ring felt like a part of my body,” said Ortega. “I can’t believe this all went viral. What a wonderful Christmas present. It meant the world to me, and now it’s on its way home.”