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  • So it's a big surprise -- to them, not us -- when they discover the true identities of their respective pen-pals.

    John Farr: Laughing in Style: That Special 'Lubitsch Touch' John Farr 2011

  • For the purposes of this rule this includes advertising for pen-pals; inmates are not prohibited from corresponding with pen pals, but shall not place ads soliciting pen pals.

    Manual Pardo 2010

  • They could have sent basic supplies or act as pen-pals to the troops like people.

    Think Progress » GOP Congressmen Say That ‘Everyone’ In Congress ‘Would Agree That Iraq Was A Mistake’ 2010

  • It might seem absurd to suggest that the key to Middle East peace is pen-pals.

    Joel Chasnoff: Peace: Take it Personally 2010

  • It might seem absurd to suggest that the key to Middle East peace is pen-pals.

    Peace: Take it Personally Joel Chasnoff 2010

  • Law & Order was pretty good, too, with the “MySpace” pen-pals who were pretending to be other people and the one guy who fell in love with someone who had been dead for two years before he ever started corresponding with her.

    651 : Bev Vincent 2008

  • I also had a bunch of pen-pals, which would probably translate to something internettish these days, but the point is, there were people who knew me and liked me and didn't care what so-and-so said to me in gym because they would only find out what so-and-so said if I could make it an entertaining story to tell them, or if I needed to vent.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2008

  • Part pen-pals, part writer's group, part proto-internet, many of the most influential American fantacists of the early twentieth century were correspondents with one another, and Lovecraft seemed to be the center of it all.

    Archive 2009-08-16 Sean Craven 2009

  • Part pen-pals, part writer's group, part proto-internet, many of the most influential American fantacists of the early twentieth century were correspondents with one another, and Lovecraft seemed to be the center of it all.

    Lovecraft And Me Sean Craven 2009

  • I have made pen-pals throughout my childhood and up to now, maintain one pen-pal friendship.

    Archive 2009-03-01 floreta 2009

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