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pen pal

NOUN
friend made through letterwriting
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He once had a pen pal relationship with President Reagan because he thought it was important to hear the perspectives of political opponents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Sigrid shared similar experiences, offering that “your pen pal will change your perspective on life, and you will gain as much as they do from the correspondence.”

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2023

A woman whose childhood pen pal suddenly stopped writing after fleeing the Rwanda genocide has written a novel to "exorcise the grief of not knowing what happened" to her.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023

Twenty years after their unlikely pen pal correspondence comes to a sudden end, Iris is working as a journalist in London and sets about trying to find her pen friend.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023

You are the best pen pal that I have ever had.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda


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