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A friendship that spanned 60 years and two continents
Local woman meets her pen pal for the first time
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Mima Owens, right, says goodbye to her "new" friend of 60 years. Owens and Maureen Simpson have been pen pals since 1953 and met for the first time in early September in England. - photo by Special
Sixty years of friendship – and yet they’d never met. That is, not until recently. In early September, 75-year-old Mima Owens boarded an airplane for the very first time and flew to England to meet Maureen Simpson, her pen pal since 1953.
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