They have helped me to understand about my own cultural identity – my way of thinking, my way of life. I am a third-generation Nikkei from São Paulo.

Later on, I met three penpals who became very important in my life.

This girl two thousand kilometers away, who just wrote to me, a total stranger, here on Slowly, became such a big part of my everyday life.

In Russia it is so hard to find someone, who could understand you and you would talk freely, without any fears!

I took off my mask and for the first time I ever tried to be honest.

I’ve been using Slowly since October 2018, when preparing a post-graduation course applying New Technologies to English Language Teaching.

Politically there are no good relations but through Slowly I made some Indian friends. I am glad to have such a deep conversation with them.

If someone had told me one year ago my soul mate is an Italian boy I'll meet on Slowly, we'll exchange letters, then meet and fall in love, I would never believe...

Since a year ago, I felt very sad and was in a stage of deep melancholy. Prayed every day to receive an angel in my life, although my angel didn't appear physically to greet me, came through a letter...

Our friendship travelled from “Warm Regards” to “Tons of Love”...

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

She actually listened to what I had to say and think in times when real world colleagues and friends didn’t find the the time or care too...