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Forty-five years late: how a message in a bottle found its way home

Martha got a phone call from a stranger to say the letter – addressed to her when she was eight years old – was found washed up on the shore of an Australian beach

“Darling Martha, miracle if you ever read this,” wrote a sailor named Tom Waugh in 1978, before tucking the letter into a scotch bottle, and throwing it overboard a container ship, 30 nautical miles north of Sydney.

“But it won’t be your first bottle letter, you have many more away out in the mid-Pacific.”

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