Хотелось поделиться с окружающими ощущениями от знакомства с интересным, как мне кажется человеком. Уже полгода переписываюсь с итальянцем, достаточно приятный и вежливый человек. И хотя мы не встречались, по переписке увидела в нем умного и порядочного мужчину. Недавно сделал предложение – зовет замуж. Конечно, удивлена такому повороту судьбы, прибываю в непонятном состоянии. Уже долгое время […]
James Garish is no spelling bee champ—in fact, he dropped out of school at 14 and spent more than half a decade in dead-end jobs before enlisting in the Army in 2008. But Garish never forgot the tricky string of letters that added up to the last name of his kindergarten crush, Elizabeth Stipkovits. He […]
When I joined an international pen pal club in November 1959, I had no idea how it would change my life. I was an RN at a large hospital in Bremen, in northern Germany. By December, the letters started pouring in. One letter from Sweden piqued my interest. It was from a Swedish horticulturist who […]
Despite abject poverty and social stigmas of his “untouchable” caste, Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia[1] earned a place as a student at the College of Art in New Delhi. Following his painting of Indira Gandhi, many people wanted him to draw them. One of those was Charlotte Von Schedvin, who was traveling in India. They soon fell […]
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