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It's been 40 years since two girls sent a message inside a little green bottle on a journey across the Pacific Ocean. They never imagined someone would be on the receiving end of that note.

Susan Cordell and Amy Beth Heinkel were junior high students in 1975 when they had an idea – roll up two notes, stuff them in a bottle and send it into the sea at Fort Worden Beach in Port Townsend, Washington.

"You know, I was at that stage, when you're that age and you just have this sense that the world is so big and you want to be a part of it and have a sense of adventure ," said Cordell in an interview with Q13FOX.com.

The girls' note was simple. They simply left their names, along with a request for someone to write them at their Port Townsend address if the message was found.

About 40 years later, someone did. On April 4, the bottle's long journey finally ended. According to the Port Townsend Leader, Mikki Stazel and boyfriend Kevin Easley were searching for debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami along the Gulf of Alaska shores when they found the little green bottle.

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After opening it and finding the notes, Stazel sought out to track down Cordell, who is now a scientist living in Hawaii. When she saw the old writing on the message left inside the bottle, Cordell immediately recognized it, and the memories came flooding back.

Cordell told Q13FOX.com another scientist friend said it's completely possible the bottle spent the last 40 years traveling the ocean currents from Washington State to Hawaii, over to Russia and China, then finally landing in Alaska.

“Definitely makes it feel like anything is possible,” Cordell said.

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