Did you ever have a "penfriend"?

I used to love writing to my pen friends I had one in China I wrote to her for years then the letter back dried up never knew why .Then I had a pen friend in France I met her when she came to our school in England she was lovely but after a while she said she was moving but never wrote again I had kids and that was that.

I used to have a lot, until the price of stamps went so high. I still love writing letters, and I make them quite long. I make my emails quite long too. I like it better than getting 15 short emails. So I send them a nice long one myself.

Yes, i had a pen friend who was in Delhi. It was a fun. But now a days its now online buddy or SMS buddy. But still sometimes i do write letters to my family members and it feels really very nice when you suddenly receive a letter form you friend.

I had a pen pal when I was in my early teens. She lived in Oklahoma and was a very entertaining person! Then she got married and I guess didn't have the time or inclination to carry on the friendship. I was quite hurt until I got married years and years later and realized just how much your life changes. I hope she's still happily married with grandchildren and a wonderful life.

not penfriend but online friends. and thanks mylot for my online friends!

my penpal is a shy boy and when i received the first letter from him the only thought in my mind was that he needed some encouragement,for he was not very good in study,and then we began to write to each other regularly indeed we were both faced with the high pressure of college entrance examination and all the time for us to write letters is before sleeping,but we never dried up the effort.but after the exam we lost contact ,lukily recently i found him online and we keep in touch again:)

I did when I was in high school. He was someone from the seminary and I think he was trying to personally learn how to reach out to the younger generation to help him with his career. He was pretty good at it - he explained theological principles but I think he thought I was 9 instead of 14 then LOL I no longer have a penfriend. And I have very few friend online that I don't know in person. I think I value people's presence too much to bother with other people who are only superficially my friend :) Thanks for the response on my discussion! http://thingswelovetohate.blogspot.com http://canihascheeseburger.blogspot.com/

I did have a penpal but I can barely remember it because I was in the first grade. My teacher had made it writing assignment and apparently had teamed up with another teacher in another state. We all had a penpal. I'm so glad you give me back this memory. I remember keeping that penpal for a couple of years after that but it slowly began to be less and less letters.

Strange question in this era of internet & mobiles. But your question has made me Nostalgic. Even my school encouraged us to make pen friends & after one such pen-friend exercise class, i ended up having 2 pen friends, one from phillipines & other from Australia. We corresponded for few years till the pressure of college education took a toll on our friendship. I remeber that the days i used to recieve their letters were the happiest days of my childhood.