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I fell in love with my PRISONER PENPAL

Flying back home from my job as an admin FIFO worker, I was excited to meet up with a guy I’d been dating.

But after just a couple of weeks, our connection fizzled out.

My job had me away from home for up to a month at times, and it made relationships tricky.

‘What’s meant for you will be,’ my mum Pat, 61, comforted me.

Scrolling through TikTok one evening in November 2020, I came across an interesting video.

A girl was sharing her experience of becoming penpals with a prisoner in

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