Swedish Journalist Finds Love Letter on Greece Beach, Starts Search for Refugee Couple

"I will not let anything separate us, whatever happens," the letter read.

November 17, 2015, 1:34 PM
Swedish journalist Erik Wiman, found this love letter written in Arabic by ‘Hamody to ‘My Rose’ on the Greek island of Samos.
Swedish journalist Erik Wiman, found this love letter written in Arabic by ‘Hamody to ‘My Rose’ on the Greek island of Samos.
Aftonbladet

— -- A Swedish journalist is turning to the Internet to find who he believes is a refugee couple behind a love letter written in Arabic that he said he recently found washed ashore a beach in Greece.

Foreign correspondent Erik Wiman wrote that he was on the Greek island of Samos covering the Mediterranean refugee crisis for Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet when he found the love letter this past late October. He said he discovered the letter in a waterproof bag.

Wiman added that he had been on a steep coastline cliff when he "almost stepped" on the letter. He wrote that "the one who has lost this letter has apparently been forced to climb from the sea shore up to the mountain side."

The letter, which was written in Arabic, was addressed to a beloved "Rose" and written by "Hamody." Wiman speculated "Hamody" could be a nickname for Mohammed or Ahmad.

Some of the lines from the letter, translated into English, read: "I promise you, I will love you until the last minute of my life," and "I promise you, I will not let anything separate us, whatever happens."

PHOTO:Swedish journalist Erik Wiman, found this love letter written in Arabic by ‘Hamody to ‘My Rose’ on the Greek island of Samos.
Swedish journalist Erik Wiman, found this love letter written in Arabic by ‘Hamody to ‘My Rose’ on the Greek island of Samos.

Wiman and Aftonbladet are now asking for help from the Internet to share the letter and its content via social media using the hashtag #FindRose to hopefully reunite the letter with "Hamody" or "Rose."

"Please, Internet, help us now," Wiman wrote. "He and she are worth it."