THE LONG FLIGHT HOME is based on a true story of a 15-year-old girl from a small coal mining town in Southeastern Kentucky who wrote a letter to a pirate radio station near the Isle of Man requesting a pen pal. A reply came from a 16-year-old boy living a large fishing port in the Northwest of England.They became great friends, corresponding through written letters for almost two years.Then, after an unexpected turn of events, the girl was forced to abruptly abandon their friendship.They lost touch, never knowing what happened to the other, each carrying on their separate lives. Forty-two years had passed when he opened an old desk drawer and came across a well-worn bookmark she had once enclosed in a Christmas card to him. His curiosity about her and what her life must be like, prompted him to do an internet search for her. This is the amazing story of their journeys.
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The Long Flight Home: a True Story of Years Lost and Love Found
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True story of teenage pen pals separated for 42 years—she from Kentucky, he from England—whose abrupt, decades-long separation ends when he finds a bookmark and searches online.
