Sentences with phrase «serve as pen pals»

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At the start of the 20th century, personal ads became even more of a necessity — as lonely soldiers serving in World War I would use them to find not just wives but also pen pals and friends.

Women Behind Bars was created in 1997 to serve as a unique prison pen pal system.

Appleby goes on to explain that military pen pals may place greater emphasis on their role as pen pals than other people might who were not doing such a job — because of the need to get news from home, as well as to relieve the occasional periods of boredom and homesickness no doubt experienced when serving overseas.

Ginsburg credits his success to the Sol LeWitt as a patron and friend who commissioned works, and served as a mentor, along with William Wegman, who served as both Eric's «pen pal» and as a «kind of a hero.»