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A Nine-Year-Old’s Message Found Decades Later | Raleigh News
A Jersey shore cleanup turned into a time-traveling mystery when John Kauterman found a 1973 message in a bottle from a nine-year-old girl named Laurie Blair—describing being captured by sponge fishermen and diving with sharks. The letter, meant for her family, was tracked down to Laurie’s sister Allie, who was moved to tears, even though Laurie had passed from cancer in 2017. The story took a poetic turn: Laurie’s letter was found nine years after her death, and John, the finder, shares her birthday—proof that sometimes, the universe has a way of weaving the unexpected into the ordinary…
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