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Love Letters In A Bottle: Gig Harbor Couple's Messages Circulate Puget Sound

The couple tossed a bottle with love letters into Puget Sound on their wedding day. People have been finding the bottle and adding more.

GIG HARBOR, WA - As you travel along the shores and waterways of Puget Sound, keep your eyes open for a wine bottle, because it might contain true love.

A story in the Tacoma News-Tribune out this week tells the tale of a married man and woman from Gig Harbor who, on their wedding day in 2012, tossed a wine bottle full of their love letters into Puget Sound. The bottle has been floating around the sound ever since.

And what sounds like something out of a movie, people have been finding the bottle and adding their own letters.

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Read the amazing story of the Puget Sound love-letter bottle from the Tacoma News-Tribune


The bottle has made it all the way from Grapeview to near Maury Island - so keep your eyes open, it might turn up near Gig Harbor next.

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