Gagetown’s Roberta MacKenzie, 85, has kept in touch with her Scottish pen pal, Pat Cunningham, since she was just 11 years ...

The pen pal club started as a way to help teenagers volunteer and connect with local seniors, especially those in memory care ...

Henry Carpenter, a Lincoln High School junior, launched the Memory Care Connections pen pal ... "Dear Arwin, thank you for the letter,” Carpenter read aloud. "Also, thank you for the compliments ...

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

"Having Pat as a pen pal is one of the most important things of my entire life," MacKenzie said ... a handwritten letter can do so much more. "It's a dear thing between us," said MacKenzie.

DEAR ABBY: I have three kids. One of them, “Jake,” is in his early 20s. He has medical issues, so he has always been babied to a certain degree. Jake has struggled with jobs, drugs, friends ...

DEAR ABBY: I have three kids ... I lose quality time with my other kids because they refuse to be around him. I have a soft spot for my “black sheep” because I am the one in my family.