Long-Distance Proposal
(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 16.
A Halifax student, Alan Ruffman, in Nova Scotia, was too shy to propose marriage directly to Linda Christiansen, 500 miles away in New York State.
But he did pop the question—into a bottle which he dropped overboard from a ship in Hudson Bay. After 11 months and 4000 miles of bobbing across the Atlantic the bottle was washed ashore on a beach in Cornwall, and was found by a holidaymaker who mailed the proposal to Linda. One day recently Alan was surprised and delighted to get a telegram from Linda saying “yes.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 2
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