14 DAY TRIAL // A mother losing her daughter years ago was gifted a message in a bottle scribbled by her when she was a child.
The message emerged after the Sandy Superstorm scooped it up. It was found by workers at the Patchogue parks department in Long Island as they were cleaning up the beaches in the area after the hurricane hit.
Mimi Fery received the ginger ale bottle with her daughter's words inside before Thanksgiving, and it was the best present anyone could give her.
Fox News reports that it contains the words “Be excellent to yourself, dude,” and the girl's name and phone number.
She had quoted “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” when writing the note, at ten years old. Sidonie Fery died when she was 18 years old. She was in boarding school in Switzerland and she fell from a cliff.
“Be excellent to yourself, dude. [...] It makes so much sense,” her mother says.
She went out to Patchogue to recover it from about two miles where it was originally thrown in the water.
“I was just sobbing when I heard they had found it. [...] These are very, very kind people,” Mimi Fery describes.
Sidonie's family was Iranian and she was born on September 11, 1991. She would travel on her own and visit family in Iran from a young age.
Brian Waldron, supervising the cleaning works for the Patchogue parks department, described the mom's excitement when she got the news about the note.
“We opened it and it had a phone number inside, so I called the number and left a message.
“I told her I felt like her daughter was looking down from heaven and wanted me to give her a call. [...] She was crying, everybody was crying,” Waldron adds.