"Throw it back": Walkers find message in a bottle that brings tears to their eyes

On a beach in Great Britain, walkers discovered something unusual: a bottle containing ashes and a heartwarming message. "This is my mother. Throw it back, she's traveling the world. Thank you, Cara," it read.

As the BBC reports, it emerged that 24-year-old Cara from Oldham threw the ashes of her late mother, Wendy Chadwick, into the sea in a bottle to posthumously fulfill her dream. The 51-year-old was a single mother of five children and was never able to realize her dream of traveling the world during her lifetime.

"No one should find her for a while. She should be in a completely different country. I would like her to end up on a beach in Barbados or Spain, which would certainly take a while," Cara told the BBC. Her mother, who "loved the beach and the sun more than anything," died of a heart condition.

Thompson, who was 14 at the time of sending the message, was surprised by the discovery, according to People: "It's amazing that the message still exists after almost 50 years." Thompson originally sent the message in a bottle with the hope that someone would discover it and report it publicly.

The message in a bottle drifted in the sea for almost 98 years before it was found by a fisherman on the coast of Kiel in 2012.