Sometimes life has a way of bringing people full circle in the most unexpected and touching ways.
Megan Lewis and Dr. Suzanne Koziol Pugh had always shared a special bond, one between a patient and her OB/GYN. But last Thanksgiving, Lewis discovered that connection ran far deeper than she ever realized.
It all began decades ago. As a second grader at Fern Hill Elementary School in Pennsylvania, Lewis exchanged letters with a pen pal nine grades her senior. Over the course of their correspondence, the girls shared favorite foods, hobbies, and dreams for the future. The letters, written between 1994 and 1995, were eventually forgotten until Lewis’s mom found them tucked away and returned them last Thanksgiving.
Curious, Lewis looked up the name Suzanne Koziol online. To her astonishment, her pen pal had grown up to become Dr. Suzanne Koziol Pugh the same OB/GYN who had delivered her children, Caroline and Jack.
“My mouth dropped. I could not believe that my pen pal was Dr. Pugh,” Lewis told ABC’s WPVI. She immediately sent her doctor a text with photos of the long-lost letters.
“I had no recollection of this,” Dr. Pugh laughed. “Her mom had given her a box of mementos from elementary school, and in the box were the letters from me. It’s such a crazy, small world.”
The rediscovered connection now feels almost destined. During Lewis’s first pregnancy, Dr. Pugh had been a steadfast presence through a difficult nine months, ensuring she was the physician in the room for both the birth of Caroline and later Jack.
“It really made us feel like I was meant to take care of her and we were meant to play a role in each other’s lives,” Dr. Pugh reflected.
What began as childhood letters evolved into a lifelong bond, a beautiful reminder that sometimes, the people who shape our lives have been there from the very start.