{"id":86941,"date":"2023-10-25T03:14:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=86941"},"modified":"2023-10-25T03:14:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:14:42","slug":"pen-pals-for-40-years-finally-meet-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/pen-pals-for-40-years-finally-meet-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Pen pals for 40 years finally meet in person"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Women who have remained pen pals since elementary school finally meet in person &#8211; 40 years later<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Two women who were set up as pen pals for a fifth grade school project aged 10 have finally met in person, more than 40 years later\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Haley Briggs, from Douglassville, Pennsylvania and Krystel Alston, from Ontario, California , continued to write to each other throughout their lives<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Earlier this month the pair, both now 53, met in Pennsylvania for the first time as Briggs does not fly<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two women who were set up as pen pals for a fifth grade school project at age 10 have finally met in person, more than 40 years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haley Briggs, from Douglassville, Pennsylvania and\u00a0Krystel Alston, from Ontario, California, continued to write to each other throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>After finally agreeing to meet to celebrate their 50th birthdays in 2020, the happy occasion was delayed due to the pandemic lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>However, earlier this month the pair, both now 53, met in Pennsylvania for the first time as Briggs does not fly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair brought some of their decades-old letters to show each other and reminisced during the emotional meet-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/21\/76954873-12667837-image-m-25_1698180319568.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Two women who were set up as pen pals for a fifth grade school project aged 10 have finally met in person, more than 40 years later<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/21\/76954839-12667837-Haley_Briggs_left_from_Douglassville_Pennsylvania_and_Krystel_Al-a-28_1698180914893.jpg\" height=\"681\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Haley Briggs (left), from Douglassville, Pennsylvania and Krystel Alston (right), from Ontario, California, continued to write to each other throughout their lives<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/21\/76954857-12667837-image-a-22_1698180286647.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The pair brought some of their decades-old letters to show each other and reminisced during the emotional meet-up<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Dear Haley, do you have a best friend?&#8217; one letter asked.<\/p>\n<p>While another asked Krystel &#8216;does it snow where you are?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair went out for dinner and said they will continue to stay in contact and remain in each other&#8217;s lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We definitely gain something from it&#8217; Alston explained, &#8216;to give something to this other person&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s hard to come by these days&#8217; Briggs added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After many years of exchanged letters the pair moved from paper to social media, where they could send each other pictures and chat about their lives more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Although there were sometimes gaps in communication over the years the women never fell out of touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We wrote by-hand letters for a long time,&#8217; Briggs told ABC News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/21\/76954907-12667837-image-m-27_1698180420912.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Although there were sometimes gaps in communication over the years the women never fell out of touch<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/24\/21\/76954853-12667837-image-a-24_1698180311599.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The pair went out for dinner and said they will continue to stay in contact and remain in each other&#8217;s lives<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think we thought about each other, you know, whether we were in contact or not&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Adding: &#8216;I got married, had a son, my mom passed. 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