A joy bottle from the sea

“I kept a plant alive for a whole month. The name doesn't…”

Joy

The plant · Sep 18, 7:36 AM

I kept a plant alive for a whole month. The name doesn't matter. What matters is that it grew another leaf today.

Drifted at sea for 48 daysPicked up 20 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.

Write one back to the seaA few lines is plenty, and your draft is saved as you type.

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