This is a very special letter, I got it from Kenya in July 1976.
I was 15, going to be 16 in autumn, and saw a pen friend notification in a magazine about Fatma in Kenya, and sent her a letter, and she answered to me by this letter!
Our friendship via letters continued then about 5 years.
I had several pen friends all over the world when I was young (already then I loved letters!), but I always felt Fatma was the closest one to me. I have saved her letters, and when looking at them one evening it just came up to my mind to try to find her in Facebook, and I succeeded! We have now had a long chat in Facebook and I'm SO happy I found her again!!! It's really amazing!
Hello dear Sirpa and thank you for your comment, which made me to come here and when I read the first words and realized how important can be such a letter, from such a far place I felt something strange, like if I knew I'll be doing penpalling for decades, and someday I'll look to my oldest letter, and feel something even more intense. I have the dream to keep some of my closest pen friend (I prefer to call them just friends) for the rest of my life, I wonder if it is possible and I cross my finger.
ReplyDeleteRecently I found in attic of my parents house a letter sent to my parents which has one stamps from the year I was born, and it got the post-offices mark 14 days before I was born. It is so far the oldest stamp I and I'm sure it doesn't mean nothing to most of the people, but to me it means a lot.
Much love,
Joana
I love your comments Joana!
ReplyDeleteI can very well understand how you feel about the stamp from the year you were born.
These letters from Fatma are very important to me, and it's a very strange feeling when I look at them and I feel it was not so long time ago I was receiving them and writing back to her, and still I know it's more than 30 years ago!