Pen pals

My daughter is 11 and lives half the year with me and half the year with her biomom she’s homeschooled so she doesn’t have big friend groups either place. (Mom lives in Hawaii) would anyone else’s kiddo be interested in being pen pals with Lilly?

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Mine would! She’s 10 and has been asking to have a penpal.

We are in Italy! My daughter is 11

My daughter would love too ! Shes 10 🩷

My daughter’s name is Lily and we homeschool in AL. She would LOVE a penpal.

I have a 11 year old we live in arizona!

I have a 10 year old. We live in Georgia !

I just asked my daughter, she is 10 turns 11 in october, she said she'd like to do it.
I felt so old I had to explain what pen pals were, my best explanation was like texting but longer 😅🤣

Thank you all so much! I think I’ve sent everyone her address with her biomom. If your kiddo could send the first letter that would be super awesome and we can all show Lilly some love as this transition has been rough on her she doesn’t know anyone where her mom lives and has already lost several friends here right before leaving for one reason or another 😞🥴 I seriously don’t remember there being so much drama when I was 10/11 🤦🏻‍♀️

My 10 year old would love this she will be 11 in August. she doesn’t have many friends. We live in Massachusetts, unfortunately we moved around quite a bit so holding friend have been hard
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Why am I so pathetic...

I just cant walk away from this "friendship" that is so glaringly obviously one way..I go 3 days feel great and then just end up caving in and messaging to see how they are

I feel im worth more than this however something in me is clearly desperate to retain the 1 friend I have 😔 even writing this is sound so stupid

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