Message in a Bottle Found After 21 Years at Sea


	Message in a Bottle Found After 21 Years at Sea

Newfman

3-28-2008 3:27 PM

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Emily Hwaung, is now Emily Shih and is a 30-year-old accountant who still calls Seattle home.

The letter in the soda bottle traveled over 1,700 miles before being discovered. The message was sent during the 1986-87 school year and spent over 20 years in transit before its discovery late last year.

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