bottle off and getting it out without dagi the bottle. the message had troy s phone number and house address, and it was really exciting. reporter: so who was this guy? troy from kentucky. i m troy heller, and i live in mount washington, kentucky. reporter: at just 10 years old he d tossed the letter and bottle in the water vero beach in 1985. my grandpa and i, we walked to the end of the pier, threw it off. reporter: never knowing it would float 14 miles over the course of almost four decades. do you remember what the note said? reporter: i wrote whoever finds this call me or write to me. the carrmaxes wanted to but only had a name a number and google. so after some serious sleuthing they sent a message of their own. text, not bottle. i couldn t believe it. for them to actually take the time to seek me out and find it, i mean, it has brought me so much joy, my reporter: inspiration for the next generation. i was about to throw a message in a
The old glass Pepsi bottle washed up on the shore of Florida's Indian River Lagoon months ago, a brown piece of paper rolled up inside it.
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