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[shandi]

I came across a real treasure trove tonight. It's kinda funny. There was a shoebox in the closet of my old high school bedroom that's full of stuff; years of pictures, tons of letters from foreign pen pals, secret love letters from boys, notes I passed with girlfriends in h.s. and other stuff like that. I had a blast reading through this stuff. I'd

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[shandi]

Yeah evidently I was pen paling with a lot of people I met online back then. I think many of them were people I was trading Smashing Pumpkins bootlegs with, though.

[xcrushedx]

You're silly. But I had loads of internet boyfriends in my day. ;)

[shandi]

That's hot. I think I might have had some other aol boyfriend who lived in Nashville. I can't remember. :P

[aurorasongs]

That's some funny shit. Did you write that dude back?

[shandi]

lol of course. We exchanged a few letters but I don't know why he thought he was ~so~ in love with me. I think he even sprayed one of his letters with cologne!

[cstseyin]

I don't know why, but most of my e-penpals were from Australia or had at one time lived in Australia.

[shandi]

Strange. The company my school used had us select a preference for where our penpals would be from. I ended up with four that were sent to me (Germany, France, Malaysia, and Italy) and then they must've given my name for three or four others because I was receiving stuff from people who's address I wasn't originally given. Most of them, though, only corresponded maybe three or four times tops before they gave up. The dude from France did actually mail me a small package but there wasn't really anything that great in it. I think I mailed a bunch of magazine clippings and articles to some girl in Italy who was all into No Doubt and the Spice Girls. haha.

[cstseyin]

We never did anything through our school. I signed up on my own in the early internet days on some random website, and I had one from Malaysia, one from the UK, one from Israel, and a ton from Australia. Most of them never had more than 5 or 6 exchanges, but there was one girl who moved to Arizona from New Queensland, and it was pretty cool to get to hear about her experience with all that and how people acted weird around her when they heard her accent.

[shandi]

Because your school was made out of cornhusks and clay.