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I was just talking with The Molly At Defamer Who's Not Me and she reminded me about childhood pen pals. I had two. Here is what I remember:

1) The first one was in second grade and my pen pal was a second grade boy at some European school. I don't remember what country, but I maybe like... Italy or something. So ANYWAY, we got our letters from them in class and my teacher had us open them and read them with a partner or whatever and then share with the class what we thought about the letter. When it was my turn, I told the class that my letter smelled like pee. The teacher was really mad.

2) The second pen pal I had I was set up with via a Christian magazine that my mother's ex-fiance's crazy mother signed me up for when I was 14. I hated the magazine and would only flip though it to show my friends how lame it was. Anyway, her name was Melissa and pen palling was her favorite thing to do, so I kind of got really into it at that time because I realized that the better pen pal I was, the more likely it was that she would mail me cool stickers and shit. I was just one of many to her, I knew that there was never going to be much of a bond past our similar taste in music and hunks. One day she got grounded, and that included pen palling and we never wrote each other again.

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