Originally written in French, translated by OpenAI.
Hello everyone,
Initially, I signed up on Slowly simply to learn English and Spanish while discovering new people and new cultures.
I’m going to tell you about my most beautiful encounter…
On March 2, 2025, I received a letter from Spain, written by a woman.
The letter was simple but well-written, and I liked that she asked me the following question: “If you could give someone a piece of advice, what would it be?”
I replied to her, just as I did with other people, but very quickly, in less than 15 days, I began to feel a different connection between her and me. Something unique and strong was happening…
We exchanged an enormous number of letters, several in the same day.
Quickly, I noticed that the wait to receive her letters felt longer and longer, and that my thoughts throughout the day were only about her, hoping she was writing to me or thinking about me.
When I didn’t get a notification, I opened the app just to make sure I hadn’t missed the arrival of a letter…
Then, after endless hours of waiting (I’m not very patient 🙂 an envelope appeared… ✉️
When I saw her name appear, my heart beat faster and a pleasant feeling took over my whole body.
I loved discovering what she wrote to me, I loved her words and her way of saying “goodbye” by sending hugs…
We felt that our feelings were mutual, and we decided to meet about two months after our first letter.
When I saw her at the airport, we hugged each other.
I hadn’t thought about that moment — the one that makes the difference between life behind a screen and real life.
And what if, after all, things weren’t what we expected? I was a bit scared.
Then, once we were in her car, she asked me a question that made that fear disappear: “Can I have a kiss?” 🤗
We kissed in the most romantic place in the world… the very place we had said our first kiss absolutely *couldn’t* happen: in her car, in the airport parking lot 😄
I have such a beautiful memory of that moment. Seeing her in real life, smelling her scent, getting lost in her eyes, feeling shy and yet not wanting to be.
From time to time, we still write to each other on Slowly, and we also send real letters.
Letters filled with love, where we take care to choose pretty stamps 😌
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Whether it’s romantic or friendly, I wish all of you to meet someone with whom you’ll feel completely at peace and happy, who will be there to read your sorrows and doubts, and who will reply to support you and make you laugh.
💌🥟
