pen pal

The children have become pen pals with students at schools in Dedham, Massachusetts, to mark the occasion.

“He’s just an incredibly loving soul,” said actor Debra Winger, a pen pal and close friend of Robbins’.

It blossomed with her friends and umpteen pen pals and reached full flower at the Malibu Cinema, the movie theater that she and her husband operated for two decades in the heart of Malibu.

The teen pen pals live in their version of “Sleepless in Seattle” nearly missing each other in landmarks across the city.

In a preprint posted recently to bioRxiv, Li and his team identify three of the brain’s pen pals in the insects.