My readers of a certain age may remember a phenomenon called “pen pals” – surely dead and gone in these days of email, texts, FaceTime, and Skype. I had several pen pals as a kid, arranged through a service advertising in the back of a magazine. I remember one in Thailand, and another in France, and I remember well how exotic both of those locales seemed. Now they're just another place, just a little further away than places in the U.S.
According to Wikipedia, pen pals are still alive and well, though perhaps a little retro. They also mention the Flat Stanley project, which I've participated in twice. That's really a lot different than a pen pal, though...
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