A Pennsylvania mom tracked down her second grade pen pal, only to shockingly discover it was her doctor — who delivered her two kids.
Megan Lewis was just trying to help her parents declutter during a trip to their home over Thanksgiving when she came across an old pen pal’s letters from 1994, when her elementary school launched a brief project linking second graders with a high school mentor.
Thinking nothing would really come of it, Lewis took to Google to try and track down Suzanne, the high school junior she was paired with.
Her sleuthing led her to Dr. Suzanne Pugh — her own OB-GYN.
“My mouth dropped,” Lewis told WDTV 5. “I could not believe that my pen pal was Dr. Pugh.”
Once the disbelief wore off, Pugh and Lewis met — as estranged friends — to read over their letters and realized they’d actually met in person during their correspondence in the ’90s, though neither remembered it.
“I have always just felt like Megan was such a special person, and we really connected. It’s just amazing that for whatever reason, our universes collided again 30 years later,” Pugh told the outlet.
“I feel like that just means we’re meant to be connected forever,” Lewis added.
Pugh entertained Lewis’ innocent wonder as a child in everything from gymnastics to cats, the letters shared with the outlet showed.
After high school, Pugh joined the military before pivoting back to her hometown with the explicit goal of “[taking] care of people.” It was “really fun” to learn she was incidentally helping “people that [she] knew when [she] was younger,” Pugh told the outlet.
Some other pen pals set up by social organizations, like the Girl Scouts, have maintained decades-long bonds — and even shelled out thousands of dollars to arrange meet-ups.
A New Jersey woman and her English pen pal met for the first time in October after 51 years of written, and later virtual, communication. Both women were united by the eerie similarities in their lives, including their respective divorces.
Two elderly pen pals linked through their respective Girl Scout groups, swapped an estimated 800 letters over 68 years from the end of middle school to their retirements.
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