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| The letter in the bottle |
A man who promised to write to his secret love Mary, apparently forgot to ask for her address, so he decided to place a letter inside a bottle and throw it in the ocean, according to press reports in Croatia.
The Canadian man’s message in a bottle to honor his promise to write to the woman, has finally appeared again, 28 years later.
Surfers cleaning debris from a beach at the mouth of the Neretva River in the southern Adriatic encountered a half-broken bottle with a paper inside, a local Croatian newspaper reported this week.
A 23-year-old local surfer, who gave her name as Matea Rezik, almost threw it away when she saw a wet paper inside the bottle which contained a message from Jonathon in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located on the east coast of Canada.
"Mary, you really are a great person. Hopefully we can keep corresponding. I said I was going to write. Your friend forever, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, 1985," the message said.
“This report moved me to tears. This man probably was in pain for not being able to correspond with the woman he so loved. Hopefully, with the international attention the message in bottle got, it will finally reach Mary,” Ann Gold, 23, of Nova Scotia, Canada told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the letter.
One thing to learn from this story is to write with a waterproof ink pen.