I always wanted to travel, and Slowly for me was a means of travel.

Watching your pen pal come to life, and materialize into the friend you’ve learned so much about, is the most sentimental and surreal feeling ever.

As a journalist, I love getting to know more about people and how they experience life. Slowly, however, allowed me to go beyond what I expected.

By simply letting our personalities flow through our letters, we were able to convey to others who we are despite the distance.

When I started interacting with people again, I noticed that I was able to have better conversations, and connect to people on a deeper level.

Thanks to the amazing people I’ve met here, I’ve curated a Spotify playlist with songs from over 100 different countries.

We talked as easily in real life as we did in the app, wandered around the mall and ate dessert at Dippin’ Dots...

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.

While we often feel annoyed or anxious when people take forever to reply to our texts, on Slowly, taking forever is the point.

He is 60 years older than me, and yet we can still find things to agree upon and share.

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

Our every letter was long as a short essay and very interesting...