Bristol Evening Post: Penpals Are Made Of The Write Stuff
People from all over the world are still writing to penpals, thanks to links set up by the Evening Post more than 50 years ago.We recently reported that Evelyn Talbot, aged 70, of Redcliffe, has been writing to her penpal in Canada for 56 years and that she wondered if it was a record. Now we have received a number of calls from readers who have been writing to penpals around the world for even longer.Sylvia Gould, 75, of Littleton-onSevern, has been writing regularly to Muriel...
Penpals: Tsunami victims penpal campaign
A STOURBRIDGE family have started a Sri Lankan penpal appeal after being bombarded with letters from children in the tsunami-hit country.Lorraine Gaytten responded to an advert in a Sri Lankan newspaper, which she read while on a business trip in Colombo in January, asking for penpals for Sri Lankan children.Her three children Joseph, aged 12, Elizabeth aged nine, and Martha, aged six, have since been bombarded with more than 200 replies.The family, of Castle Grove, Oldswinford,...
Penpals: Sexy penpal's left me pregnant at 15,
Dear Deidre
Dear Deidre I MADE love with my American penpal the first time we met and now I think I'm pregnant. I am 15 and I don't know how to tell my parents.He is 24 and I have been writing to him for four years. I was thrilled earlier this year when he said he was coming to England.From his photos I knew he was good looking, and judging by what he wrote I think he found me quite attractive when he saw my picture.We arranged to spend a day together in London,...
Penpals become a couple
FAIRYTALES can come true -- just ask Brisbane law and commerce student Christopher Klis who fell in love with his penpal when he came face to face with her at a wedding on the other side of the globe. Chris, born in England to Polish parents, arrived in Australia in 1986.Four years ago, a close Polish friend asked Chris to be his best man at the friend's wedding in Warsaw, Poland. Coincidentally, Chris' penpal of six months, Emilia Marek, was the chief...
