“Water is life, just as you are life to me.”
They are words of passion, but they were not relayed in a way one would expect, over candlelight at a romantic restaurant. Instead, these words of passion were part of a letter found in a bottle floating in the Mediterranean Sea, along with another letter, both written in Italian by lovers who have been together for five years.
Claire Zammit Xuereb, a woman whose husband was killed by an intruder on New Year’s Day 2012, saw the bottle bobbing in the sea as she enjoyed an afternoon on a boat with her family on June 29, a public holiday in Gozo, an island south of Sicily.
Mollusks, that looked like little stars, clung to the side of the bottle. Ms. Zammit Xuereb and her family did not want to break the bottle, but breaking it was the only way to be sure they could read the letters, dated June 8 of this year. They could tell that no water had leaked inside, but they saw what looked like a little bit of oil.
Inside, they found love letters written on small, delicate paper that had yellowed, one signed by Rossella and the other by Luca, words of passion in a bottle.
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