A woman who sent a message in a bottle out to sea received an angry letter and a box of rocks in return. “I just wanted a bit of romance,” the 58-year-old from Eastbourne, England, said.

Lorraine Forbes hoped to spark a connection with a stranger, but was left shocked and dismayed upon receiving a message, scrawled on the back of a John Lydon concert flyer, demanding she stop littering, according to a report by KPVI.

“I just wanted a bit of romance,” Forbes said. “It has always been a hobby of mine. It is an old-fashioned thing.”

Forbes, who has lived by the seaside for three decades, added that she has been sending messages in bottles “for years,” receiving replies from Holland and France, with most of her letters washing up on the shores of nearby beaches.

Then, on September 5, For

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