WAYNE, Pennsylvania -- "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 ...

Pen pals Emily Conn (left) and Brenda Stowe (right) have been in touch since they started writing letters to each other in middle school. After six decades of friendship fostered by handwritten ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Now in retirement, a long-time Toledo businesswoman is determined to cross off the number one item on her bucket list. She’s searching for her long-lost friend who lives halfway ...

Eight-year-old Nyima Mitchell found a message in a bottle in his backyard in Nova Scotia. The message simply asking for a pen pal was dated August 12, 1995, signed by a 14-year-old girl named Nellie ...

MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, Ohio -- A friendship that began in 1969 through a Girl Scout pen pal program became a reality this summer when Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights met her longtime pen pal, ...

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 ...

Debbie Houschild, of Oceanport, can still recall the excitement she felt in 1974, when she received her first letter from a pen pal in England. At the time, Houschild was an avid viewer of “Big Blue ...

When she was 11, Pat Smola was curious about people and places outside of her hometown of Cleveland. She discovered a pen-pal service called Friends in Other Lands through a newspaper advertisement.

After six decades of friendship fostered by handwritten letters, two pen pals finally met face-to-face for the first time — and the interaction was captured in a now-viral video. Emily Conn from ...