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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 to a pirate radio station near the Isle of Man requesting a pen pal. A reply came from a 16-year-old boy in 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 abandon their friendship. They lost touch, never knowing what happened to the other, each carrying on with their separate lives.
Forty-two years later and now grown, he ran across the bookmark she sent him in a Christmas card when they were teenagers, prompting him to do an internet search for her. This is the amazing story of their journeys.
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The Kentucky Bookstore , 126 South Main Street,Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, United States
