An ace New York Post photographer was reunited Tuesday with a long-lost personal piece of 9/11 history that he thought he’d never see again — and he owes it all to an eagle-eyed stranger and a Reddit thread.

Post veteran William Lopez had been given a plaque years ago featuring a slice of steel from the World Trade Center replicating the Twins Towers and an extraordinarily touching photo he captured on New York City’s darkest day . 4

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Lopez then lost the plaque, one of his most treasured keepsakes, in the shuffle of a chaotic housing move about a decade ago.

“I thought I’d never see it again, and I accepted it,” Lopez said. “I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I got it back. I was so overwhelmed with emotion.”

His photo — a copy of which is in the Library of Congress

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