A message in a bottle, posing a question about love and dropped into the sea off Indonesia, has been found more than a year later and 9,000 km away in Mozambique, on the east coast of Africa.
The message’s author, Anne O’Sullivan, was travelling on a cruise ship past the central Indonesian island of Komodo when she tossed the bottle overboard. "We’re sitting in our balcony pondering. Is it better to love or be loved? Your answer will be appreciated. Call us or write to us," the Australian teacher’s note read.
Fifteen months later, she received a telephone call from a woman in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, telling her: "I found your bottle. It’s better to be loved. But to be loved you must love."
Fiona Marlton found the bottle bobbing in the shallows on the Mozambican shoreline during a holiday there two years ago. This year, Mrs O’Sullivan and her husband travelled from their home in a small seaside town south of Sydney to meet Mrs Marlton at her home in Creighton, near Durban.
Mrs Marlton said that when she found the message, she was waiting for a friend who fell ill and died three weeks later.
"I lost a good friend, but when I found this bottle I gained another friend," she added.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Love+letter+bottle+answered+after+journey/6629955/story.html#ixzz1v3cUDV8i
The message’s author, Anne O’Sullivan, was travelling on a cruise ship past the central Indonesian island of Komodo when she tossed the bottle overboard. "We’re sitting in our balcony pondering. Is it better to love or be loved? Your answer will be appreciated. Call us or write to us," the Australian teacher’s note read.
Fifteen months later, she received a telephone call from a woman in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, telling her: "I found your bottle. It’s better to be loved. But to be loved you must love."
Fiona Marlton found the bottle bobbing in the shallows on the Mozambican shoreline during a holiday there two years ago. This year, Mrs O’Sullivan and her husband travelled from their home in a small seaside town south of Sydney to meet Mrs Marlton at her home in Creighton, near Durban.
Mrs Marlton said that when she found the message, she was waiting for a friend who fell ill and died three weeks later.
"I lost a good friend, but when I found this bottle I gained another friend," she added.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Love+letter+bottle+answered+after+journey/6629955/story.html#ixzz1v3cUDV8i
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