The faded, handwritten note—signed simply “Rysia” and penned 700 km away in the southern city of Tarnów—speaks of sleepless nights, motorbike-triggered memories and solitary days at a summer course.
“My dear […] I think about you all the time,” she wrote, adding wistfully: “You could go wherever you want, but I sit alone.”
Eryk and Kuba, the boys who made the find, turned to the Trojmiasto.pl news site, whose readers transcribed the old-fashioned cursive.
A museum in Tarnów is now helping trace the couple—or their descendants—66 years after the bottle began its Baltic journey.
The episode has captivated Polish social media, with commenters urging a reunion that might reveal whether Rysia’s wartime-era romance ever came true.
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Source: TVP World, trojmiasto.pl