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HAMPTON BEACH, N.H. – A message in a bottle traveled thousands of miles and as many as 50 years before finding its way back to the author’s daughter. Paula Pierce has lived her life by the ocean.

HAMPTON, N.H. — A bottled message sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago has been returned to his daughter. WMUR-TV reports the message was discovered by Clint Buffington of ...

It was like an accidental note to self nearly three decades into the future. It’s rare for bottled messages to get seen by anyone, let alone their immediate family. However, that’s exactly what ...

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Message in a bottle. The words conjure up images of romance and adventure — of shipwrecked sailors and star-crossed lovers, marooned on real or metaphorical islands, scrawling desperate missives and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Clint Buffington is from the notably landlocked state of Utah — but when he found his first bottled note on a beach after college, he was hooked. “If you can find one, there have to ...

A message in a bottle traveled thousands of miles and as many as 50 years before finding its way back to the author’s daughter. Paula Pierce has lived her life by the ocean. Recently, it delivered a ...