Il faro e la bottiglia
The lighthouse and the bottle
Marco had been keeper of the lighthouse of Punta Nera for twenty years. The island was small, almost deserted, and he had learned to enjoy of the silence.
One morning of November, after a night of storm, Marco was walking along the shore when he saw something gleam among the stones. It was a bottle of glass green, sealed with a stopper of cork.
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Inside there was a sheet rolled up, written in hand with ink blue. The message read: "To whoever lives for alone for by choice: you understand you."
Marco has read those words three times. He sat has sat on the stones and has looked at the sea for a long moment. No one had ever written something like that kind to him before.
On the sheet there was also a small question: "If you could reply, what would you say?"
Marco about it has thought for days. In the end, he took paper and pen, has written a single sentence, has rolled the sheet and it has put in the same bottle. Then he went to the shore and threw it threw into the sea.
The sentence that he had written was: "Me too I understand you understand."