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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

He said a German pen pal who befriended him in prison helped in his rehabilitation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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

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

I wondered which tribe my pen pal was from, and what it meant to be from one or the other.

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




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