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Via USA Today:

Every year on Sept. 11, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe posted the same photo on social media: a wedding photo found in the rubble of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. For 13 years, she’s been searching for the people in the photo.

This year, her search came to an end.

The photo was retweeted more than 30,000 times and shared on a number of news websites. On Friday, the day after Sept. 11, Keefe received a message on LinkedIn from a man named Fred Mahe.

Mahe saw the photo last at his desk on the 77th floor of the second World Trade Center tower 13 years ago. He thought he’d never see it again.

ABC News reports that the pair had an emotional phone call talking about the photograph and that Keefe hopes they’ll meet up soon. Mahe also contacted Christine Loredo, the bride in the photograph, who said she felt the photo was a “great memento of resilience.”

“The story is Elizabeth, the story is persistence and trying to help someone she didn’t even know,” Mahe told ABC.

Keefe kept the picture safe in her favorite Ernest Hemingway book. This year she tweeted “Every year on #911 I post this photo hoping 2 return 2 owner,” she wrote. “Found at #groundzero #WTC in 2001. Pls RT.”

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