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This is Love

Message in a Bottle

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A woman finds a mysterious message in a bottle, and becomes consumed with finding out who wrote it and why. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a very beautiful bottle.

0:45.0

And inside was this letter rolled very tightly,

0:51.0

with a ribbon around it.

0:55.0

There was a curl of hair and there was some sandalwood shaving.

1:00.0

So it had been beautifully packaged and it was completely watertight.

1:07.2

In 2002, a woman named Sue Pito was walking on the beach on the Isle of Sheppi in England when she found an actual message in a bottle washed up on the shore.

1:18.0

The letter was long, written by hand and in French.

1:23.0

Sue doesn't speak French, so she asked your friend Karen Leibridge to translate it.

1:28.0

Here's Karen.

1:29.0

I have to say that when I started reading the letter, I was rather irritated. I had a lot of work to do.

1:35.2

This letter is about three or four pages, quite hard to read, know, quite loopy.

1:44.0

And I was...

1:48.0

I have to do this now, you know,

1:50.0

Sue's asked me, but I, you know, I know yes all right I'll do it and I

1:53.6

started to to decipher the letters the words late in the evening and I have a

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