STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

cc · Marc Jacobs

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blubirde · Chanel

RE: pen pals / correspondence relationships

Tara · Dooney & Bourke

A coworker of mine forwarded my email to his friend b/c we had the same taste in music. We emailed back and forth just as friends (we both were and still are in relationships). We kept making plans to meet up, but it never worked. I moved across the country to CA, and we still email at least every 2-3 days! I consider him a very good friend even though we hadn't ever met! Over Thanksgiving, my boyfriend and I went to Prague. My email penpal and his girlfriend met us there and it was awesome! The 4 of us got along so well.

Moral of the story: email pen pals are great!

CC - now you will have a reason to travel to France!!!!!

tara t · Marc Jacobs

i adopted a soldier... so i have a pen pal, but he just doesn't write back to me.

Andrea Julia · Coach

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Originally posted by: tara t
"i adopted a soldier... so i have a pen pal, but he just doesn't write back to me. "

I want to adopt a soldier! How do you do that?

CC, I've had online friends before, too. Before I went to Egypt, I "met" this guy from the message board on the site of my tour group. We kept talking because we were supposed to be going on the same tour. He ended up backing out last minute, but we still kept talking. We would talk about our relationship issues and just anything really. It is only recently that we've lost touch. I think I've just gotten too caught up with other things. He lives on the west coast so we never really planned to meet (aside from the Egypt trip).

Sometimes I will "meet" guys on MySpace or random guys that IM me, but we usually lose touch after a few weeks, or even days, without ever meeting in person. I kind of lose interest quickly. There's only so much I can find to talk about with them. So, that is amazing you found someone you can keep up the conversation with. You should meet him before he moves. Then you can visit him in France!

cc · Marc Jacobs

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-- Edited by cc at 14:26, 2006-02-02

Mia · Kate Spade

Wait. Wait. Now wait just a minute here. You can *adopt* soldiers?! How did I not hear about this? Is there a catalog?

I want to adopt 6. Can I keep them in my closet?

Metric · Gucci

I correspond via email with my cousin in South Africa. I love having someone to email with and occasionally we send little packages of stuff. Its fun, imo. But I think its important not to get all uptight if they don't reply right away, maybe they are just really busy. But I hate getting inundated with junk forwards and jokes and crap.

On a totally different vein, I used to work with a girl from France who came here after marrying her penpal. They had been writing since they were kids and eventually it turned to Love! They kept writing to each other for 10 years or so. They met for the first time when he came to France to propose. I thought it was such a neat story and they were such a cute couple.