I can always remember having pen-pals, by snail mail in my day, as a youngster and even as I were older and a single parent, I remember one Joseph from Germany, Johanna from Australia as a child, and Sulem from Kenya, but now I have a online buddy from mass , USA, he is my best friend and we have known each other for over two and half years now, its all platonic, although he is single and looking, infact I am always trying to hitch him up with someone, he is a few years older than me, and a dog lover, oops here I go again.