After 43 years of exchanging letters, two penpals, one from Newfoundland and one from Singapore, met in person for the first time this week.
For decades they’ve been “sharing our best times and our worst times together in letters,” said Sonya Clarke Casey. ““We always signed off saying ‘I hope someday we will meet.’ But it never really felt like we really would.”
Clarke Casey and Michelle Anne Ng connected through a school penpal program in 1983, when they were both in Grade 5.
They started writing to each other – and never stopped.
Sitting together
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