All of us have heard tales of individuals discovering messages in bottles, but I’ll bet you’ve never heard of somebody discovering a message in an egg carton.

A 92-year-old Iowan has had a 70-year dream come true thanks to social media after a message she scrawled on an egg at a packing plant in 1951 was finally answered.

A couple of the female employees at the Forest City, Iowa, facility, including Mary Foss, made the decision

to all sign eggs with their names and hometowns and send them out in various boxes that were leaving that day.

Mary, who had never been to New York City, hoped that someone there would discover the cartons and decide to become her pen buddy.

The cartons were heading for the East Coast. She sent out four or five of these eggs to increase the likelihood of a

chance encounter over scrambled eggs, but as the year went on, the prank became a story to tell at dinner and lunch gatherings.

‘Please write me if you get this egg,’ With a pencil, Mary painstakingly wrote on a number of eggs.

The date, April 2, 1951, and the words ‘Miss Mary Foss, Forest City, Iowa’ were added after that.

The Washington Post quoted Laurie Bascom, Mary’s daughter, as saying ‘We heard that egg story our entire lives.’ Mom always felt it would be great to hear back.

Unbeknownst to Mary, who later married and took the name Mary Starn, one of her eggs had been discovered by a man by the name

of Miller Richardson, who kept it for many years in his home and watched it become petrified among his collection of antiques.

The story’s second major character is Richardson’s neighbor John Amilfitano, who once discovered the egg while assisting Richardson in searching through his collection.

After describing its history, Richardson handed it to Amalfitano, who kept it in his china cabinet for 20 years before he passed away years later.

Amalfitano believed the unusual egg would fit well in the Facebook group ‘Weird (and Wonderful) Secondhand Finds That Just Need To Be Shared,’ where the story was initially posted.

‘I wonder whether she’s still around! I looked for her but couldn’t find her. In a lengthy post in the group,

he said, ‘I keep the egg safe in a gorgeous, art deco, English, Egg cozy, along with images of the egg.

Within a day, it appeared on the screen of one of Mary Starn’s nieces, who then forwarded it to Starn’s daughter

Jacque Ploeger. The comment section erupted with curious minds eager to solve the 72-year-old riddle.

He dialed Ploeger’s number and slowly started narrating the egg story, which was so weird that he wasn’t sure what to anticipate even though he knew he might have found the egg author’s family.

He told the Post, ‘I heard this voice speak up on the conversation in the background. She introduced herself as Mary Foss.

Amalfitano claimed that the brief talk he had with her was tremendously uplifting and that he hopes to meet Starn,

who claims that it only took 72 years for her to find a pen friend from New York (Amalfitano resides on Staten Island).