“A message in a bottle that a woman tossed off the coast of Massachusetts has been found nearly two decades later in Nova Scotia.

Rita Ganim, 80, dropped the bottle into Ipswich Bay in August 2000 with a short message asking the person who found it to contact her.

Dallas Goreham, 11, had been looking for sea glass in the Canadian province last Wednesday when he came across the bottle…”

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When I was a kid in a small town near Kansas City, I tied a note with my name and address to a helium balloon and freed it. A few weeks later, I received a letter from a gentleman that found it in his farm field, near Terre Haute, Indiana. Several hundred miles from its launch point.