WORCESTER, Mass. - Wendy Warner sent a message out into the ocean when she was 14 years old and it has now, about 60 years later, made its way back to her daughter.

Spectrum News 1 was able to connect her with the person who found the bottle to talk about the unique memory they’ve now made.

Aja Talarico and Kate Rivers are meeting for the first time on a Zoom call to talk about the message in a bottle Rivers found while visiting a Cape Cod Beach.

"I went to go pick it up and I had noticed that there was something inside of it and I was writing," Rivers said. "So, I immediately I was like, ‘Is this a message in a bottle?’ Because that’s just crazy."

Rivers carefully removed the slightly water damaged message and noticed some key details like the name Wendy, age 14, and the mailing address of the sender, so then she took to Facebook.

"Out of everything in that letter that was pieced together, that address was perfect," Rivers said. "And at least like a first name and that just opened so many doors."

"It's amazing," Talarico said. "Like the power of social media has made the world so much smaller."

Spectrum News 1 visited the address on the letter to find the current homeowners aren’t related to Wendy, but they remembered meeting Wendy Warner, who grew up in the Worcester home, and believed she’d be about 70 years old now.

Further investigation led to finding a high school best friend of Warner’s who provided her daughter’s email address. When Talarico saw the letter, she immediately knew who wrote it.

"I got your email this morning and I looked at the photos and the first thing I thought was like, 'oh, my God, there's my mom's handwriting,' which apparently hasn't changed since she was 14 years old to the time she was 70 years old," Talarico said. "And I just was like blown away by all the dots that were connected that led you to me."

Warner passed away in 2021 at the age of 70, but her daughter describes her as a free spirit who spent her summers growing up on Cape Cod. Talarico said sending a message in a bottle just to see where it would go is exactly something she could picture her mother doing.

"I wish that I could tell her that somebody found her note," Talarico said. "I just wish, she would be so tickled by this story. She would think that was the coolest thing ever. And not only someone found her note, but it made its way back to her daughter, which is just so cool."

"I really feel for her. I lost my mom about two years ago from breast cancer," Rivers said. "So, to just be able to give someone else a piece of like, here's a little bit of your heart back, like it made my heart happy as well."

And now a simple message thrown into the ocean 60 years ago has made a new meaningful memory for the daughter of its sender.

"I've been kind of, in a way, waiting for a sign from my mom for the past three years just because it's been really hard without her," Talarico said. "And I feel like I kind of got one today. So I thank, Kate, for having found her message in a bottle on the beach."

At first, Talarico claimed, 'finders keepers,' saying the note and bottle are now Rivers' to keep. Rivers plans to mail the pieces of the letter to Talarico soon and get Wendy’s message to her daughter.