~(~: “I remember her. I saw her story on the national news a few years ago. Sidonie Fery. She tossed her bottle into Great South Bay, off of Long Island, New York. And Hurricane Sandy washed it up in Patchogue.”
^|^: “You must have the fastest Google link in the world.”
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33: “There is something exhilarating and fascinating about launching a message in a bottle. Will it be fate or chance if/when the note is found and read?”
^|^: “Unfortunately in this case, it was the intersection where fate and chance cross with tragedy.”
33: “Oh, did something happen to her?”
^|^: “She died in 2010 in Switzerland, two and a half years before Sandy hit.”