The couple who became pen pals aged 17 in 1986 ... Their correspondence flourished from their first letters. "My mother and father are self-employed fishmongers, and they own a shop in Stoke ...

There’s this excitement that comes with receiving something in the mail.” Kailyn Lee is a senior at Sunny Hills High School ...

The two were connected through an organization called the International Youth Service, which matched pen pals. VanderLaan noted ... to the U.S. But this wasn’t the first time VanderLaan and Schneider ...