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It was 53 years in the making. A message in a bottle written by a 9-year-old girl in 1973 washed up on the Jersey Shore recently — while the man who discovered it found the late author’s sister just ...

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When 9-year-old Laurie Blair Brown tossed a bottle carrying an imaginary distress call into the ocean in 1973, she was certain someone would find it. More than five decades later, someone finally did.