I am proud to say that my Mandarin has definitely improved, and I have been able to talk with teenagers from Senegal to Switzerland and Hong Kong.

And since that, we never contacted each other because he doesn't want to give me a false hope.

Now I also have a big new dream to buy a ticket to South Korea and fly to Seoul to meet my awesome soulmate!

She took a plane and drove 200km by car to see... me? Just... me?

When I listened to her sweet, soft voice speaking lovely Persian words to me from across the world, it melted my heart.

He is 60 years older than me, and yet we can still find things to agree upon and share.

They listened to me and helped me and comforting me when i was sad.

It is difficult to keep a long-term pen pal relationship, that’s why I am very lucky.

Just like many other female citizen of third world country, I was treated like convicting any shameful act.

I didn't expect that anyone will ever talk to me like my first pen pal wrote me.

We both decided to share our unabridged stories from the first moments we met on the app. I told my story from my point of view and Danny from his.

When I was young, I was diagnosed with Autism. This made my mother (and eventually me when i got older) extremely sad...