Feb. 7 (UPI) —<\/span> A Massachusetts man was surprised on his birthday with the class ring he lost 40 years ago.<\/p>\n “Never in a million years did I think I’d find it,” Dan Halloran, a 1982 Lawrence High School graduate, told WHDH.com.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Halloran remembered losing the ring the same year he graduated high school.<\/p>\n “I used to take my (class) ring off before I’d go to basketball practice, and put it on the top shelf of my gym locker,” Halloran told The Eagle-Tribune, adding this routine didn’t prevent him from losing the ring after one practice in 1982.<\/p>\n “I remember looking everywhere for it,” Halloran also said. “I looked in my car, which was a dented Chevy Nova. I looked in my other locker at school. I gave up.”<\/p>\n Recently, a janitor clearing out space in the high school found it behind some lockers, and called Halloran’s wife, Maria, who surprised him with the ring on Saturday for his 58th birthday.<\/p>\n “It was so cool, the biggest surprise I could’ve received,” Halloran, who now resides in Lawrence, Mass., with his wife and three grown children, told the Eagle-Tribune.<\/p>\n “I was honestly stunned,” he added. “But I knew it was mine because it had a little basketball with blue diamonds around it.”\n<\/p>\n He also said he’s gained 50 pounds in 40 years which changed the size of his ring finger.<\/p>\n “It’s basically a pinky ring now,” he said. “But I’m not complaining. I love it.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A class ring lost four decades ago at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Mass. (shown), has recently been found. Photo by John Phelan\/Wikimedia Commons Feb. 7 (UPI) — A Massachusetts man was surprised on his birthday with the class ring he lost 40 years ago. “Never in a million years did I think I’d find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nA class ring lost four decades ago at Lawrence High School in Lawrence, Mass. (shown), has recently been found. Photo by John Phelan\/Wikimedia Commons<\/div>\n\n