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Women pen pals for 70 years now feel more like family
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- Kathleen Bonthron from Glasgow was 10 when paired with 11-year-old Shirley Hedtke from Wisconsin in 1956.
- The pair, now 80 and 81, exchanged letters regularly across seven decades through childhood, adulthood, and into retirement.
- Kathleen named her daughter after Shirley 55 years ago, cementing their close bond across continents.
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