{"id":87,"date":"2013-07-01T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devdune.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:21:16","slug":"sand-stories-message-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunejewelry.com\/blog\/sand-stories-message-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"Message in a Bottle – Scituate Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n<\/a>\"143-mammy\"<\/a>There are many different ways for families to express their love for one another. \u00a0When it came to my grandmother, it took a very specific form. In the many letters she wrote to me over the years, and there were a lot, she\u2019d always sign off with \u201c143\u201d which stands for \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mammy, as we called her, was an amazing woman and as strong matriarchs often do, she made her opinions known about everything in all of our lives, whether welcomed or not. She passed away a few years ago, but the story I\u2019m going to tell makes me believe that she still can control things from where she is now.\u00a0\"message-61\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I spent a lot of my childhood summers going to Round Pond, ME to visit Mammy. She lived in Scituate, MA during the winters, but spent the warmer months up north in her small fishing village on the Maine sea coast. She loved that little town. \u00a0She had been going there all her life and had wonderful memories that she carried on by sharing them with us.<\/p>\n

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The movie \u201cMessage In A Bottle\u201d starring Kevin Costner was filmed not too far from Round Pond. I remember her talking about all the famous people around and how exciting it was that Round Pond was being placed on the map in Hollywood. We watched that movie together and she said afterwards, how fun it would be to send a message in a bottle. My typical answer to her was \u201cYeah sure, Mam, I\u2019ll get to it\u201d. Years later, when I had children of my own, she still would say, \u201cDo the bottle thing with thekids.\u201d My answer was always the same\u2026brushing it off.<\/p>\n

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One November day, Mammy left us for a better place. It was one of the saddest days of my life. I was so heart broken. I so badly wanted my children to get to know her like I had. She was cremated. \u00a0We all went to Round Pond to celebrate her life and spread her ashes in the ocean so she would be there forever.\u00a0 It was actually a beautiful moment watching the sea carry her away.\"message-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Almost a year later, as the anniversary of her death approached, my husband had a great idea. \u00a0\u201cLet\u2019s go to Round Pond and throw some flowers where we put her ashes\u201d, he said.\u00a0 After consuming a bottle of wine, I had a better idea. \u00a0I exclaimed, \u201cLet\u2019s send a message in a bottle!\u201d So my children drew pictures for \u201cBig Mammy\u201d as they called her (my mother now having assumed the title \u201cMammy\u201d as their grandmother), and I wrote the letter.\u00a0 We sealed it up with hot wax and waited until the next day to drive to Round Pond. I remember thinking that it would never be found, particularly considering the extremely rocky coasts of Maine. I figured it would probably get smashed against the rocks, but the kids were so excited to do it anyway. It was a great moment watching the kids throw the flowers and my husband toss the bottle to sea.<\/p>\n

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So, now we have come to my favorite part. Five days later on November 9, the one year anniversary of Mammy\u2019s death, I had a message on my answering machine back in Massachusetts. It was from a man in Scituate.\u00a0 He was calling to let me know he found my bottle (we had included our phone number in the message). I was shaking listening to him speak. He told me the time, tide, and exact location of where he found it. He left his number for me to call him back.\u00a0 As I dialed the number I had to stop and listen again.\u00a0 The number he gave me was just about exactly Mammy\u2019s phone number. The only digit off was in the exchange. This was getting too weird.<\/p>\n

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When I finally got him on the phone, we spoke for awhile. The bottle was found on the beach at\u00a0Minot Lighthouse\u00a0in\u00a0Scituate. Minot\u2019s light blinks in a 1-4-3 pattern and it is believed it does this to stand for \u201cI love you.\u201d Mammy lived in Scituate, always said 143 and the phone numbers matched. \u201cThis is her!\u201d I thought. \u201cShe is telling me she is ok!\u201d \u00a0The wonderfully nice man said he was going to re-seal it and send it back out. But I knew in my heart I needed to save that bottle\u00a0forever.<\/div>\n
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I drove to Scituate to retrieve the bottle.\u00a0 His wife met me outside their home which is between Minot Light and Scituate Light. We couldn\u2019t stop talking about how amazing this story was. As I turned to get in the car, we hugged and she said to me, \u201cMy nephew died on November 9th<\/sup>\u00a0too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The next year we got another twist to the story. After almost forty years, a long lost older sister that my mother had put up for adoption finally tracked us down. The day I first met her: November 9th<\/sup>. Mammy, it seemed to me, was still making herself known from that \u201cbetter place.\u201d It makes sense, she always did like to control everything.<\/div>\n
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This blog post was written by our Dune Jewelry BONUS June Blog Contest winner, Amber Ryalls. She won a Dune Jewelry Sandbead which she chose to have filled with sand from Minot Beach.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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