Remember that chill-inducing E-bay commercial from a couple
years back? A boy loses his toy boat while playing seaside; it
turns up in a fisherman's net, and years later the grown man
finds it on the online auction house. "What if nothing was ever
lost?" asks the voiceover, expertly tugging at our heartstrings.
"What if nothing was ever forgotten?" The vignette has come to
life: a British man has been reunited with a message in a bottle
he threw into the sea when he was 11 years old."What If Nothing
Was Ever Lost?"It was found while some people were cleaning the
beach, and they tracked him down. (No, he didn't find it on
E-bay!) "Now aged 33, Mr Wylie said his mother had encouraged
him to throw bottles into the sea as a child - something which
he continues to do with his own children." [BBC]