Mass. Bottle Message Ends Up in Africa

LYNN, Mass. (AP) - A message in a bottle launched in Massachusetts two years ago has traveled halfway around the world. In a letter postmarked from Morocco, 26-year-old Assila Ahmed wrote that he’d found a bottle thrown into the water by Genevive Hernandez of Lynn.

Hernandez, now a 13-year-old seventh grader, was among group of fifth-graders who on Nov. 20, 2003 put messages in bottles and cast them off from Lynn’s shores that stormy day. Hernandez said she’s amazed that her green Sprite bottle made it as far as it did since most of them either bounced right back to shore or ended up only as far as the Cape.

“I thought it wasn’t going anywhere,” said Hernandez. “Mine was stuck on the seaweed.”

Students received replies from 14 people before Hernandez received hers. Most were from the Cape Cod area. One made it as far as England. Read full story

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