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 ...

Despite 50 years of friendship, pen pals Carolyn Evans and Connie McNiel had never met in person. That is, until now.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Did you ever have a pen pal? A local woman got a pen pal when she was in elementary school. For decades they stayed connected. Now, more than 40 years later, something amazing ...

FIFO worker, Savannah Phyffer, has had her fair share of unsuccessful relationships over the years while residing in her hometown of Perth, Western Australia. We’ve all heard the old saying “You’ll ...