Despite being a world away, pen pals Kerrie and Pat have been there for each other for 58 years
Kerrie Skelton, 72, Blenheim, NZ
Arriving home from school, I sifted through the post.
Finding the letter I was looking for, I skipped to my bedroom and tore open the envelope excitedly.
Aged 14 in 1966, I was living in Newcastle, NSW, while my pen pal Pat, then 11, lived across the world in Connecticut, US.
We’d started writing to each after I’d put an ad in a teen magazine to find a pen friend. And we had so much inI’d scribble, infatuated with
