He lives just 10 minutes from my apartment! Can you believe it?! I have never meet him...

Letters are not for everyone. I had sent letters to my friends on their birthdays and they have, without fail, never written back.

It left me feeling so uninspired to reach out to anyone else, until – Just when I least expected it, I had an incoming letter from Iran.

Last chapter: A transnational friendship

We exchanged a few handwritten letters (until mine was lost in the mail), met a few times to work together in a café or walk along the Seine.

Thanks to Slowly I have become a more patient person.

Slowly gave me hope, captured in a letter.

Hier, het is een prachtig platform om een nieuw persoon te leren kennen.

Ik gebruik Slowly nu pas een paar maanden, en ik kan niet stoppen met de app aanbevelen.

I still kept him around in my friend list because this is one of my favorite encounters in this app.

Ik was al verliefd op haar brieven voordat ik haar echte naam kende of voordat ik haar gezicht, een foto, had gezien; via haar brieven had ik gezien wat belangrijk is: haar ziel.

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone...