Slowly Stories
Penpalships You Can Only Find on Slowly
Sometimes, the best advice comes from a stranger.
Instead of just writing as a story, we made it look like an interview in a reality show. Hope you like it!
Because of you, I have 2 friends, one fluent with whom I share with all my trust and soul and another with whom I have to force myself a little.
某日回信後,我悄悄把帳號停用。
沒有回應的信。我想在Slowly裡的大家都有這個經驗。
我收到了來自南韓、日本、菲律賓、印度及中東地區筆友的信件,當我收到並閱讀他們的文字,那種感覺真是不可思議…
Unforeseen encounter in the midst of a global pandemic: A story on how I met my best friend twice.
We talked as easily in real life as we did in the app, wandered around the mall and ate dessert at Dippin’ Dots...
He lives just 10 minutes from my apartment! Can you believe it?! I have never meet him...
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.