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The Letter from the Sea

Every year on his birthday, Pak Wirya walked to the harbour and threw a sealed bottle into the water. Inside was a letter addressed to nobody. The fishermen thought he was a little strange, but they let him be. After all, he had been a fisherman for forty years until his knees stopped working.

This year, however, something unexpected happened. Three weeks after his birthday, a small boy named Bayu ran to his door holding a wet envelope. "I found this bottle near the mangroves," he said. "There is a letter inside, but I can't read the handwriting." Pak Wirya's hands shook as he opened it. It was his own letter from fifteen years ago.

The letter was short: "To whoever finds this, I hope the sea is kind to you. I lost my son to it. But I still believe it gives more than it takes." Pak Wirya had never told anyone about the sentence. He read it aloud to Bayu, slowly, as though listening to a stranger's voice.

"Who is your son?" asked Bayu. The old man smiled thinly. "A boy who also wanted to read the sea. He was about your age." For a long while neither of them spoke. Outside, the tide rose and fell as it always did.

The next morning, Pak Wirya was waiting at the harbour with two small fishing rods. "The sea has returned my letter," he told Bayu. "I think it wants me to answer." The boy grinned and took one of the rods.

Why did the fishermen allow Pak Wirya to throw bottles into the sea every year?