Twice a month, Nona Avery sits down, picks up her pen and writes a letter to her best friend. The British woman has been doing it for seventy ( year). She sent more than 1, 500 letters to her pen pal in America.
The hobby started 1942. Nona, then twelve, was reading a magazine. Some ads in it were asking for pen pals. One of them (catch) Nona's eye. It was from Alice Powers. She lived in America and was also twelve. "I was very (excite)" Nona said. "I sat down (quick), wrote a letter, put it in an envelope--together with a picture of myself--and posted it. "Nona (spend) every day waiting for the postman. Two weeks later--which felt like a lifetime--a reply dropped through the letterbox. "I was overjoyed," Nona said. "There was a letter and a picture of my new friend. She was on the side of the world!" Nona and Alice kept ( write). The two found that they had a lot in common. They liked the same books and the same films. , both Nona and Alice were too poor to buy a plane ticket. They didn't meet until 1987.
Now in their eighties, Nona and Alice are still writing to each other. And they still write by hand. "Writing is much (much) intimate (亲密的), so why shall we change the habit of a lifetime?" Nona said.
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