HONOLULU (KHON2) — The ocean. It’s like a slow moving conveyer belt of stories ferrying forgotten things between continents. But every now and then the sea returns what time tried to bury.
“It’s so crazy, because I didn’t think this would matter to too many people, but everyone’s very impacted by it,” Hawaii Kai resident Payton Hollenbeck said.
Hollenbeck, now 21, never expected the miniature bottle, corked tight, with tiny perfectly folded origami cranes and a message scribbled by her then 6-year-old brother Elias, tossed into the ocean off Kaena Point in 2018, would ever be found…