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.

I am feeling emotions I haven't experienced in a long time. We share things we love and try to appreciate the things we don't.

Earth can be a scary, chaotic place, but it feels more like home when you know there are people thousands of miles away who are willing to face the challenges here with you.

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

I have fallen for her letters before even knowing her real name, or before seeing her face, a picture, through her letters I had seen what matters: her soul.

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

I've never had an easy time making friends, feeling much more comfortable talking through the computer screen or cell phone.