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A bottle message launched to the Atlantic in 2012 by a Canadian couple was now discovered by a couple who was cleaning a beach in Ireland.
A romantic gesture made over a decade for a young channel couple now bears fruit 3200 kilometers awayNa Irlanda.
In September 2012, Anita and Brad Squires ended a meeting on Bell Island, on the east coast of Nova, shooting a Message in a bottle in the Atlantic Ocean. The handwritten note captured a moment of youthful love: “Anita and Brad day tour to Bell Island. Today we enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other, by the island.” The ticket included a phone number, inviting anyone who found the message to contact them.
After 13 years, Kate and John Gay found the bottle on Scraggane Bay beach in Kerry County in Ponta West of Ireland. The couple, who participated in a local beach cleaning organized by the Maharees Heritage and Conservation group, was intrigued by the message And tried to call the number, but to no avail.
On Monday night, they shared the discovery on the group’s Facebook page. Publication quickly became viral And in a few hours, the news has come to the now married sums in Terra Nova who are parents of three children.
“It was 48 hours quite turbulent,” Brad Squires told. “I was lying our youngest son and my phone kept playing. Anita was in the other room laughing, the same thing was happening to her.”
The couple, who started dating a year before the tour of Bell Island in 2012, married in 2016. Anita now works as a nurse, while Brad recently renovated the Royal Mounted police of Canada. “We were just young people in love“He shared Brad in an interview with RTÉ radio Morning Ireland.” Now we are older people in love. “
For Anita and Brad, unexpected spotlights are more than nostalgia: they are a reminder of a lasting love and a possible reason to visit Ireland in the near future. “We are happy that the story has spread,” Brad said. “We are meet new friends Because of this and we hope to return to Ireland soon. ”
