"I call it my OMG story … my, oh my God," said Marion Shurtleff.
Like any story worth telling, this one starts with the mundane and ends in a mystery.
"I thought a while that I'd like to have another Bible to compare with my Bible that I had to see how the verses changed," she said.
Shurtleff walked into a tiny new and used bookshop in San Clemente five months ago and bought a used Bible.
"I flipped through it. I liked it," she said.
When she took it home, she noticed a yellowed folded letter inside.
"A couple times, I opened the Bible and I looked at this side and I looked at the other side," she said.
Two months went by before she took a closer look. ( wow she has patience, i would be like hey wonder what this is)
"And then I opened it up, and instantly I saw my name," Shurtleff said.
She has since changed her name from Mary Lou to Marion.
"I recognized my handwriting. I hollered. I started shaking. I cried. I had goose bumps," she said.
Tucked inside was an essay that she wrote 65 years ago to earn her merit badge for girl scouts.
"Be kind to animals. Do not pick flowers. Don't walk on the grass," she wrote.
Shurtleff says she wrote that letter in her hometown of Covington, KY, more than 2,000 miles away.
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