Have you ever had a pen pal? And I don't mean 'I e-mail BillyMac. We're pen pals!'. I mean old school, paper envelope and stamp friends. Where the person lives in another country (well, not necessarily...) and the only contact you have with them is snail mail.
If you did have a pen pal, how did you meet them, where did they live and are you still in touch at all?
This may not sound exotic, but when I was 9, I was in buffalo visiting my mom's cousin and I met a girl who I really got along with well, so we decided to become pen pals and write to eachother. We wrote consistently for years and years, until we were old enough to talk on the phone (old enough meaning our mom's made us fork out when the phone bill came). Sixteen years later, our e-mails are more frequent than our letters ever were
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Any other pen pal stories out there? I remember way back when, a girlfriend of mine started writing to a girl in New Zealand who she found in the 'do you want a pen pal' section in the back of Bop Magazine. There's gotta be some of those stories out there!!!
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