CBC Radio: Pen Pals' Phone Call #1

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Holly and Shelly, pen pals


HOLLY FURGESON: Hello.
SHELLEY RUTHERFORD: Hi Mike. Hi Holly.
HOLLY FURGESON: Hi Shelley. This is the we've talked .
SHELLEY RUTHERFORD: Yes. The second time. That's right.
MIKE FINNERTY: All those years of writing and only the you've ever talked ?
HOLLY FURGESON: Yes. She had to come out here for us to talk .
MIKE FINNERTY: Holly, why did it take so long for the two of you to ?
HOLLY FURGESON: Hmm. That's a good question, isn't it, Shelley?
SHELLEY RUTHERFORD: Yes.
HOLLY FURGESON: We just so much. And I don't know Saskatchewan seemed like . So I never had any reason to go out there except maybe to visit her. I don't know and here we are.
MIKE FINNERTY: That is isn't it, Shelley?
SHELLEY RUTHERFORD: Yes It is yes. When you said or something, I thought, Oh yeah! I didn't realize.
MIKE FINNERTY: Can you take us back, Shelley? Those 56 years ago, how did start?
SHELLEY RUTHERFORD: You know I'm not sure whether we discussed pen pals and maybe that was to get a pen pal. I don't think so. I just think that I wanted that was addressed only to me. So I thought a pen pal would be a good way to do it. So I in the Western Producer which was a weekly Western paper, and Holly .