Pen Pals Meet After Years of Correspondence.
Merlynne Culbertson and Lynne Clarke have been friends through the good and the bad, the births of grandchildren and the loss of a son.
Their friendship might seem ordinary, except they never saw each other in person.
Culbertson, of Lexington, and Clarke, of Oatley, Australia, have been pen pals for seven years. In today’s digital world, they communicate mainly with postal letters or — as Clarke calls it —“snail mail.”