In 2010, a Utah woman who had brain cancer tossed a message
in a bottle of the California coast. Recently, it has been found by a group of
high school students on the beaches of Guam. This article was featured 8 hours
ago today, posted by Yahoo! User Dylan Stableford.
Three years ago, Brittanie Penrose was on a date with her
current boyfriend Aaron Lanari, who on the spot thought it would be good to
send a message out to sea. Penrose wrote about herself dealing with cancer and
said that if the note was ever found, to “find her on Facebook.” (Really does
bring people together, folks.) Her boyfriend wrote original song lyrics, “When
intelligence is ignorant and empathy is absent, death and hate are present when
joy and love are abstract." And last Thursday, Javier Sanchez (14) found
the note 6,200 miles away. With a teacher and a group of students, they posted
an online video reading the note, which was eventually discovered by Penrose
herself.
It was exciting for
Penrose and Lanari to talk back and forth with the class. She received words of
encouragement from these students, despite that she was able to fight off her
brain cancer long ago. Her boyfriend just comments, “I hope they don't
prosecute us for littering.”
It was really enlightening to read this article. I hope that
many other people have their moment to shine, and that those with an ongoing
struggle can fight it out like Brittanie Penrose did.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/message-in-a-bottle-guam-150327571.html
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