Yeah, I started pen-palling in the 1990's--there used to be a really big anime group that I was in, where we all wrote to each other--we circulated these things called "friendship books", where if you wanted a pen-pal you wrote your address in it, sent it along to another pen-pal and it got sent all over the U.S. and even to other countries. I've seen pen-pals disappear and never heard from them again, but I've got about 5 pen-pals that I began writing to between 1995-2005, whom I still write to today.........so it's really cool to have known someone that long. Of course, a few of them prefer e-mails now, over a letter--but I'm still talking to them in some way. :)