I didn't expect that anyone will ever talk to me like my first pen pal wrote me.

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.

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.

Я почав користуватись Slowly від жовтня 2018 року, коли готував післядипломний курс із застосування нових технологій у викладанні англійської мови.

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...

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

No she’s not my significant other, she’s not my best friend either. But she’s extremely special...

I came out to her as transgender and she is the only person who really sees me for who I am as a person, she doesn't see my body, she sees me...