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Carol Exum and Gloria Klinder, who have been pen pals for 60 years, read through a diary that Klinder has kept since she was 8 years old. The two met in Mankato this week to celebrate six decades of friendship.
John Cross / The Free Press


Klinder’s earliest communications with Exum, which started on July 16, 1947, are recorded in her diary.
John Cross / The Free Press


Women celebrate 60 years as pen pals

Correspondence kick-started by giraffe pin in 1947

By Sara Gilbert Frederick
Special to The Free Press

“We have so much in common,” Exum says. “I love her to death. She’s the sister I never had.”

And while Klinder still has some of the letters she received from her “pen-pal sister” over the years, she no longer has the giraffe pin that started it all.

“I wish I had kept that pin,” she said.



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