It was a red-letter day. Two women who have been pen pals for 51 years finally met in person for the first time — and the ...

Debbie Houschild, of Oceanport, first began writing her pen pal, Jane Bean, of Sittingbourne, England, in 1974. The pair met ...

Two women who were set up as pen pals by an American TV programme and a UK magazine in the 1970s have met for the first ...

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A friendship that began more than 50 years ago through a Girl Scout pen pal program is finally coming face to face this week. Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights has ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - When was the last time you wrote a letter by hand or got one in the mail? Young ladies in Sioux City at Girls Inc. had the chance to become “pen pals” with a generation that relied ...

Jayne Sowers, left, and Jillian Dunbar sit together for tea in a mall in Bunbury, Australia, during a visit together in June. The pair were matched as pen pals in 1965 and remained in contact ...

Linda Lawler looks forward to Felyazon Viernes’s cheerful greetings, her handwriting sweeping across the pages with tall letters. The 75-year-old pen pals send each other notes and gifts from their ...

What began as a childhood connection turned into a 51-year friendship and a highly anticipated meeting Courtesy Kimberly Johnson Debbie Houschild from Oceanport, N.J., and Jane Bean from Sittingbourne ...

WAYNE, Pa. -- "Only difference is now we've been in the same place at the same time," said Krystel Alston about her lifelong friend, Haley Briggs. Alston and Briggs were paired up as pen pals during ...

Geoff Banks and Celesta Byrne have been writing to each other for more than eight decades — but they now also use "this new thing called Zoom" to stay on touch Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor ...

Diane (Bergan) Rustad was 12 and attending school in Hawley, Minn., when she submitted her name to the Weekly Reader as someone interested in becoming a pen pal. Diane Rustad, right, enjoys a visit ...