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Girl’s Message in a Bottle Follows Her Home
Eight-year-old Meagan Bilodeau was out on a cruise ship in the middle of the sea when her dad talked her into writing a personal message, sticking it into a water bottle, and tossing it into the ocean. “I always wished someone would find my bottle if I sent one. If found, would you kindly write back to me? Please? Please? Please?” she’d written.
She imagined it finding its way to far off places — CNN reports the most likely destination was the U.K. — but something happened to throw that bottle off course and it nearly followed Meagan all the way back home. Teddy Herrick, 11, found it while boating with her own family, just fifteen miles from Meagan’s home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Teddy lives in Colorado and the girls plan to be penpals.
“I was very surprised. I thought it was a cool thing to do, and it was cool that the current would take it close to her home,” Teddy told CNN earlier this week.
I shared this story with my kids, and they immediately wanted to go drop a bottle in the nearest lake. Instead, I told them maybe we’d try this message in a bottle craft. Sure, our bottle won’t end up in some new and far-off place, but since we live nowhere near the ocean, it’ll have to do.
Photo: Mykl Roventine, Flickr
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Faggot24 commented on Oct 22 09 at 7:02 amAs usual, if a variable is not given in a math problem, you can assume two things: whatever the actual value, it does not affect the solution, and to help solve the problem, you can just use any value you like. ,
Stinky92 commented on Oct 23 09 at 6:15 amSuspecting a trap, Jake agrees while setting his own plan into motion. ,
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