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Hurricane Katrina 'Message in a Bottle' Comes Home to New Orleans, 8 years Later

Hurricane Katrina 'Message in a Bottle' Comes Home to New Orleans, 8 years Later
Angela Caballeros, 22, stands in her family's living room in Broadmoor looking out the front door. Her mother and her grandmother are there, too. They can hardly wait to see the letter and meet the man who saved it, treasured it -- even framed it -- and vowed to return it to "the unknown Angela."

Angela Caballeros, 22, stands in her family's living room in Broadmoor looking out the front door. Her mother and her grandmother are there, too. They can hardly wait to see the letter and meet the man who saved it, treasured it — even framed it — and vowed to return it to "the unknown Angela."

"Oh, look, he's in a park ranger car," Angela says excitedly, and then Rob Turan walks into the house, holding the gift he has kept for so long and driven all the way from Chatanooga, Tenn., to give back.

(READ the wonderful story, w/ photos, from the Times-Picayune)

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