9 Years Later, Teen Gets Response to Message in Bottle

Max Vredenburgh threw bottle into the water in Massachusetts; someone found it in France
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Nov 11, 2019 6:55 PM CST
He Threw a Message in a Bottle at Age 10, Got Response at 19
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A Massachusetts college student has received a response to a message he threw into the ocean when he was 10 years old, the AP reports. Suffolk University sophomore Max Vredenburgh says he put the letter into a glass wine bottle that he threw into the water at Long Beach in Rockport in August 2010. Vredenburgh's father texted him Friday to say that he had received a letter from someone named "G. Dubois" who found the bottle on a beach in Southern France on Oct. 10. In Vrendenburgh's original letter he listed some of his favorite things including apples, the beach, and outer space. He also asked that the letter's recipient "please write back." The 19-year-old Vredenburgh posted photos of the letters to his Twitter account Friday. (More uplifting news stories.)

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