{"id":569518,"date":"2026-02-06T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:54:21","slug":"woman-discovers-childhood-pen-pal-became-doctor-who-delivered-her-2-kids-my-mouth-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569518\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Discovers Childhood Pen Pal Became Doctor Who Delivered Her 2 Kids: ‘My Mouth Dropped’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A handwritten letter to her pen pal Megan Lewis from April 1995 \u2013 Courtesy of Suzanne Pugh<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t quite a reunion; since the women knew each other well.<\/p>\n

Their relationship, so far as they understood it, was that important one between an OB\/GYN and their patient carrying a child. Little did Megan Lewis and Suzanne Koziol know it at the time, but their relationship was actually a little bit deeper than that.<\/p>\n

When Megan Lewis was just a 2nd grader at Fern Hill Elementary School in Pennsylvania, she wrote a series of letters to a pen pal 9 grades her senior. Whether typed up or written by hand, the two girls happily divulged favorite foods, activities, and what they dreamed of.<\/p>\n

Three decades passed, and then last Thanksgiving those letters which Lewis had completely forgotten about were given back to her by her mom who\u2019d saved them. Looking up the name Suzanne Koziol on Google returned a professional profile of one Suzanne Koziol Pugh, complete with a photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mouth dropped. I could not believe that my pen pal was Dr. Pugh, who was my OB\/GYN and delivered my kids: Caroline and Jack,\u201d Lewis told<\/a> the ABC News affiliate WPVI.<\/p>\n

Lewis sent Dr. Pugh a text message immediately after.<\/p>\n

\"\"Megan Lewis and Suzanne Pugh at the ages they were pen pals \u2013 credit, family photos<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no recollection of this,\u201d Pugh said. \u201cHer mom had given her a box of papers\/mementos from elementary school, and in the box were the letters from me. She sent me pictures of the letters and it was me! It\u2019s such a crazy small world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The letters were written between 1994 and 1995 when Dr. Pugh was a junior at West Chester East High School.<\/p>\n

Lewis said that during her first pregnancy with her daughter Caroline, she and Suzanne grew very close, as it was a difficult 9 months. She made sure she\u2019d be the physician in the room for the delivery, and made the same assurance later when Lewis gave birth to her son Jack.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really made us feel like I was meant to take care of her and we were meant to play a role in each other\u2019s lives,\u201d said Pugh.<\/p>\n

WATCH the story below from Inside Edition\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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