A joy bottle from the sea

“Someone tilted their umbrella toward me today. A small…”

Joy

With an umbrella · Sep 9, 8:15 AM

Someone tilted their umbrella toward me today. A small thing. I put it in here so I wouldn't forget it later.

Drifted at sea for 58 daysPicked up 21 times

This is a message in a bottle on AnyBottle: a short, joy letter written to a stranger and set adrift. Anyone can read it; signed-in readers can tie on a kind reply. Many people use it for unsent letters they never found a home for.

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