MY PEN PAL FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS 1958-1962
When I was in High School Seminary (1958-1962), I had a South Korean "Pen Pal." I don't remember his name for sure, but something like Dong Reyel Tang keeps coming to mind. We wrote back and forth and exchanged gifts. I forgot what I sent him, but I remember him sending me some nice green woven baskets with lids. In a box of old "keepsakes" I came across his tiny picture that he sent me and I have kept it all these years. He is obviously wearing some kind of uniform. I think it just might be his seminary uniform since I know both of us were in the minor seminary about the same time.
I have no idea what happened to him, but I do have many questions. Is he still alive? Did he ever become a priest? Did he leave the seminary to become something else? Did he marry and have children? Is he still in South Korea or did he emigrate to another country? If he is still alive, we would both be about 81-82 years old.
I would love to make contact with him, or any of his family, after all these years, but it sounds almost impossible since I cannot recall any other details about him including why or how I lost his old address.
However, with the internet, who knows? Maybe this post will be like one of those old "message in a bottle" events from the past when someone puts a paper message in a bottle and throws it into the sea only to have it be picked up by somebody on some beach on the other side of the world and be returned to you! I do believe in "miracles." I believe Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of TV, nailed it when he said "Impossible things just take a little longer!"
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