The pursuit started when Donna McCall was 10 years old. She wrote a letter to her crush, child star Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on classic 1960’s sitcom The Munsters. Some 45 years later, she got reacquainted with Patrick after her memories of their correspondence were triggered by a news report and now Donna McCall is dating Eddie Munster.
McCall, 55, and Patrick, 57, got acquainted again via email. The more Patrick found out about McCall, the more intrigued he became. After she sent along pictures of herself performing her “bucket list” items, such as scuba diving and race car driving, Patrick was smitten. “She’s single, she’s beautiful, she’s in the nicest part of the country and she likes to do adventurous things. I figured I had to meet this woman,” he says.
So, at DraculaCon, a horror convention outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the two met for the first time. Within weeks of their May 8 meeting, Patrick moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, to be with McCall. The two are now dating. All it took was a little persistence.
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