Twenty-three years ago, a 10-year-old British girl put a message in a bottle. She tossed her hope into the North Sea and presumably didn't think too hard about it. Much to her surprise, the now 33-year-old woman received a reply, along with her original message.
The BBC report on this event notes that the bottle washed up on a Netherlands beach. The Dutch couple who found the bottle wrote to the British message writer.
I suppose the moral of the story is patience. Waiting more than two decades for an answer is a long time. Even Ulysses didn't have to wait that long to return to Ithaka.
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