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ZAGREB, Croatia – A Canadian man’s message in a bottle has washed ashore in Croatia 28 years after he penned the letter meant to fulfil a promise to a woman.

“Mary, you really are a great person. I hope we can keep in correspondence. I said I would write,” the short message reads. “Your friend always. Jonathon. Nova Scotia 1985.”

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Kite surfer Matea Rezik discovered the note after it washed up in a bottle on the banks of the Neretva river.

Rezik told Croatian newspaper Dubrovacki Vjesnik she was helping clear a beach of debris when she spotted the plastic-coated note shoved into a bottle.

Rezik has since posted a photograph of the note on Facebook and said she’d love to get in touch with either Jonathon or Mary.

“Message in a Bottle! From Canada to the Neretva River estuary for 28 years!!” she wrote alongside the photo of the message.

The discovery is sparking much speculation about the relationship between the man and the woman and what might have become of them.