pen pal
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Directed by Shunji Iwai, “Love Letter” starred Nakayama as both a woman mourning her late fiancé and her unexpected pen pal.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024
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
Lily had been studying English in school and had a British pen pal, whose family agreed to sponsor Lily’s removal to England as part of the operation known as Kindertransport.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022
We don’t dare use Fina’s flashlight or even our phones, because if my pen pal does come, they’d be able to spot the light from a mile off.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
