A Facebook post helped locate Anita and Brad, who dated a year ago when they wrote that message and got married in 2016
Anita and Brad had been dating a year ago, when they decided to close a romantic meeting in Newfoundland, in the east end of Canada, putting a mutual statement in a bottle they launched. We were in 2012.
Thirteen years later, the bottle was found in Scraggane Bay in Kerry County at the western tip of Ireland. On the other side of the Atlantic.
Message written by Anita and Brad, after a meeting in Bell Island in September 2012. (Facebook Maharees Heritage and Conservation)
“Anita and Brad’s day trip to Bell Island. Today we enjoyed dinner, a bottle of wine and each other, by the island,” said the message, who asked those who found the message that “please,” called them to a number they indicated in the message.
Thirteen years later and 2,000 kilometers away, another couple, Kate and John Gay, found the bottle. They read the note, toasted Anita and Brad and wondered if they would still be together. They called the number indicated on the ticket, but got no response. Therefore, they decided to publish a message for five days on the Do Page, the environmental group that had organized the cleaning of the bay that led to the discovery of the bottle, and waited.
The post became viral and, in a few hours, friends in Canada warned Anita and Brad Squires to discover the bottle. Anita and Brad married in 2016, now have three children and moved to Terra Nova
“It was Monday night and I was lying our youngest son and my phone rose, played, I was very unusual. Then I heard Anita laughing in the other room. Her mobile phone was doing the same thing.
“We were just young people in love,” Brad recalled the Morning Ireland program at RTÉ radio. “Now we are older people in love. We are happy that the story has been released. We are meeting new friends because of this and we hope to return to Ireland soon,” he concluded.
