MARQUETTE — More than 20 years ago, a young girl in the Upper Peninsula tossed a message in a bottle into AuTrain Bay on Lake Superior, never expecting to see it again. Today, that bottle — which traveled over 1,000 miles and washed ashore in the Outer Banks of North Carolina some years ago — has finally been returned to its sender, now grown up and living in Marquette.

“I remember writing the note and throwing the bottle into Lake Superior as a child,” said Amy Benson (then Amy Kuivanen). “To be reunited with it after all these years feels like a little miracle.”

The bottle’s journey is as remarkable as it is mysterious. After floating for years, it washed ashore on the Atlantic coast, where a young woman named Aimee discovered it in the early 2000s. She kept it through many moves, disp

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