(Fargo, North Dakota-AP) -- Rosemary Severinson has been writing to Lucille Raspotnik for 57 years. But it wasn't until yesterday that the two women finally met.
Severinson, a native of Devils Lake, North Dakota, was eleven years old when she began the pen-pal relationship.
The two have corresponded for nearly six decades, sharing news about their marriages, children, holidays and family deaths.
Severinson -- who now goes by the last name of Johnson -- says the two women have exchanged pictures, but they've only spoken on the phone five or six times. She says finally meeting her pen pal is "almost like a dream."
Severinson now lives in Moorhead, Minnesota. Raspotnik lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They met yesterday at the airport in Fargo.