Twice a month, Nona Avery sits down, picks up her pen andwrites a letter to her best friend. The British woman has been doing it for 77 years.She s more than 1, 500 letters to her pen pal in America.
The hobby s in 1942. Nona, then twelve, wasreading a m . Some ads in it were asking for pen pals. One of themc Nona's eye. It was from Alice Powers. She lived in America and wasa twelve. "I was very excited" Nona said. "I sat downimmediately, w a letter, put it in an envelope--together with apicture of myself--and posted it. "Nona spent every day w forthe postman. Two weeks later--which felt like a lifetime--a r droppedthrough the letterbox. "I was overjoyed," Nona said. "There wasa letter and a picture of my new friend. She was on the other side of theworld!" Nona and Alice kept writing. The two found that they had a lot incommon. They liked the same books and the same films. However, both Nona andAlice were too p to afford a plane ticket. They didn't meet until1987.
Now in their eighties, Nona and Alice are still writing toeach other. And they still write by hand. "Writing is much more intimate (亲密的), so why shall wechange the h of a lifetime?" Nona said.
