OOooh, I so loved the old school way of corresponding between pen-pals. The pen and paper method. I had a small number of pen pals when I was in high school but sadly, over the years, we stopped writing.
I remember how exciting it was to get mail in the mailbox. I mean, there's just nothing like seeing a different patterned stamp, or seeing different paper and going through the letter, knowing that the person went through the effort of writing it all down.
Over the years, my pen pals and I exchanged small token stuff (coz we were always in different countries). We'd send over seemingly insignificant stuff like movie tickets or small clips etc. I even sent her a satchet of barley lemon tea once hahaha, coz she didn't have it where she was from.
Ah but those were the days
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I did have one bad experience though - this dude whom I corresponded with for a short while -one day the phone rang and it was him! Good God! I never gave him my number but he found it anyway and that sorta freaked me out a little :S I guess we just gotta be careful - email's a wonderful way of corresponding...decidedly safe, but er, its no fun compared to getting stuff in pen and paper
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