Roberta MacKenzie, of Gagetown, N.B., and Pat Cunningham of Perth, Scotland, started sending letters to each other in the ...

The women, from Rockhampton and Sydney, are war widows of Vietnam veterans. Mrs Russell's husband died in 2017. The pen pals were paired as part of a program run by Australian War Widows Queensland.

In a 15-second TikTok video, a blonde woman in a white T-shirt appears. She asks for men or women to reach out to her if they’d “like to talk” and, at the end, blows a kiss to the camera.