Pen pals for 40 years, two women — one originally from Hunter River, P.E.I., the other from Tennessee — recently met for the first time.
The long-distance friendship started when Cumberland City, Tenn., student Susan Hendry received an assignment in her Grade 3 class.
'It was like my sister had come home.'- Lynn Herrell
"We were to pick a country to write to. We got extra credit if someone wrote us back," said Hendry.
Hendry received a letter back from Lynn Herrell in P.E.I.
When they first started sharing letters, both were country girls with similar interests.
"The connection was almost immediate where I felt comfortable writing to her and it was just like someone I had known forever," said Herrell.
They both eventually went into the education field — Herrell is an educational assistant, Hendry a teacher — further cementing their enduring bond that, over the four decades, saw the women exchanging letters, greeting cards and now Facebook messages.
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Over the years, there were many plans to meet, but it didn't happen until a few weeks ago.
"Susan lost her son this past year. I thought, 'You know what, we can't keep putting things off.' I just wanted to be there," said Herrell.
So she and her husband drove 3,000 kilometres from her current home in Saint John, N.B., to Tennessee to be with Hendry for American Thanksgiving. It was the first major holiday Hendry was facing without her son Alex, who was 26 when he died in July.
"It was like my sister had come home, and I really needed that," said Hendry.
"I had made a comment to Lynn that I didn't know what I was going to do to get through this holiday and she said, 'Well I do. I'm coming to visit.'"
Herrell said meeting her friend was "almost overwhelming" at first.
"But I'm glad I could be there for her," she said.
The pair already has another get-together planned. Hendry hopes to tour P.E.I. with Lynn this summer.
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