8-Year-Old Boy Finds Message in a Bottle From 25 Years Ago and Tracks Down Its Sender

8-Year-Old Boy Finds Message in a Bottle From 25 Years Ago and Tracks Down Its Sender
Courtesy of Kelly Mitchell
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A handwritten message in a bottle, tossed to sea by a 14-year-old Quebec girl, took a quarter century to travel nearly 60 miles to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. There, it was found by an 8-year-old boy who was delighted by the earnest message.

He wrote back.