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More than two decades ago, a 10-year-old schoolgirl threw a bottle into the sea off the coast of Hull as she embarked on a family holiday, hoping to get a response from a stranger in a faraway land. 20多年前的一个家庭假日里，一个10岁的女生在赫尔海湾抛下了一个漂流瓶，希望能得到远方陌生人的回信。 Inside the bottle was a scrawled letter from Zoe Lemon, a youngster with a love of "ballet, playing the flute and the piano", who had just boarded a ferry bound for a holiday in Germany. 漂流瓶里的那张字迹潦草的信是Zoe Lemon写的，她是一个喜爱“芭蕾、演奏竖笛和钢琴”的女生，她当时刚刚上轮船要去德国度假。 She told her prospective recipients of her pet hamster and fish, both called Sparkle, and her parents who were both teachers. 她告诉了收信人她的宠物是一只仓鼠和一条鱼，它们的名字都是Sparkle，还有她的父母都是教师。 Miss Lemon, of Salford, Greater Manchester, soon forgot about her act of whimsy, eventually marrying and having a child herself. 大曼彻斯特郡索尔福德市的Lemon小姐，很快就忘了她的一时兴起之举，后来她嫁为人妇，也有了自己的孩子。 But this Christmas she was staggered to receive a reply after 23 years. 但是在今年圣诞，她惊讶地收到了23年后迟来的回信。 | 
