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pen pal

NOUN
friend made through letterwriting
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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

I chuckled because I wasn’t sure what was more comical: the persistence of this long-lost pen pal or the thought of me ever leaving L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 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

"My hand hasn't been this tired since I instant-messaged my pen pal in California for an hour."

From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene




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