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This story happens to be true although the reader will be surprised at some of the events which happened. It is mainly about the friendship between two pen friends which stretched over nearly fifty years. Some names have been changed to protect their privacy. Val Boothman Pen Pals I was a student at Blackburn High School for Girls and had enjoyed letter writing since I was a small child. My father frequently wrote letters to our local newspapers so I was brought up in an environment of expressing oneself and commenting on aspects of one’s daily life by the pen. I have always been an inveterate letter writer and in my teens I had several foreign pen friends...