最初是通过手写的信件。然后演变为通过电脑发e-mail。笔友之间的联系也在悄然发生着改变。

Harp: So you met him on the Internet, and then you guys become pen pals and used traditional snail mail. Then you met in real life and then now you met again, years later, using Facebook.

Maura: Yup. It’s pretty cool.

Harp: That’s a very cool story.

Maura: Yeah, it was fun. And it’s always fun to meet people from different places and exchange with them and get to know people. I like that.

Harp: Yeah. I had pen pals when I was young but they were always living somewhere far and I never wrote to them for a long time. I never met any of my pen pals. That’s very cool.

Maura: Yeah, yeah, it was fun.