Dear Sir, I hope you can understand my letter. I've wrote to 3 pen friends in Okla and Colorado for over 50 years. With help from this newspaper. But sadly, 3 of them has passed away.

And keep in mind, you might write someone a letter and they might not write you back, or maybe your pen pal relationship will fizzle out over time. Syme says, that's OK. SYME: It's OK.

The creator of a pen pal project that has drawn tens of thousands of participants across the globe chats about her new book, ‘Syme’s Letter Writer,’ and the joy and connective power of snail ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In a world often ruled by screens and scrolling, we sometimes forget how nice it can be to just sit down with paper and pen to write an old-fashioned letter. Well, now we have a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — While serving our country in Vietnam in 1968, Army veteran Van Kolb chose a random envelope out of a bunch of pen pal letters sent to his post. The letter he picked was from a ...

And Alicia insisted on the last word. “His answer was too general,” she said. “He has to do more than ask.” Then she sat back to see if her pen pal had more to say.

Two strangers. One war. Thousands of letters. A Michigan woman was assigned a pen pal 80 years ago to write to as homework. Now in their 90s, they haven't stopped.