Old penfriend
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I am 77 years old and in 2009 I was on holiday in New Zealand. One morning I said to our driver that when I was at school I had a penfriend in Dundedin and that I had written the address so often that I could still remember it. As I quoted the address he stopped in his tracks and said he went to school just round the corner from there. He asked for her name which he didn't recognise, however, a couple of days later he had traced her, found her married name and had spoken to her on the phone. I rang that evening and arranged to meet when we returned to Christchurch. We had a day together catching up on over sixty years of news.
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:06:20 +0000Coincidence ID:5687
