By Anna Edwards PUBLISHED: 11:10 EST, 18 April 2013 | UPDATED: 03:56 EST, 19 April 2013 It's certainly a romantic gesture - putting a message in a bottle and throwing it into the sea in the hope it reaches its destination. But perhaps it's not the most practical way of expressing yourself, as one bottle took 28 years to be discovered - nearly 5,000 miles away. In 1985 a man called Jonathon penned the note 'Mary, you are really great person. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write. Your friend forever, Jonathon, Nova Scotia, 1985,' tucked it into a bottle, and threw it into the Atlantic ocean.
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Bottle believed to have travelled nearly 5,000 miles to reach Croatia
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Would have been swept from Atlantic Ocean to Mediterranean Sea
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Discovered by woman clearing up rubbish on beach
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