Think of how much the world has changed since the creation of e-mail!  In my younger years (much younger!), I had SO many pen pals from all around the world!  We hand wrote (or sometimes even typed on a typewriter) our letters, carried the envelopes to the post office (because they almost always needed extra postage due to the length of the contents!) and then waited ever so patiently to receive a letter in return.  It was a great treat to receive personal, hand written letters in the mail.  What a wonderful experience to share thoughts, experiences, hopes and dreams with friends I mostly had never met.  I am still in touch with many (Facebook friends, you know who you are!) and miss those days of hoping for envelopes with my name on to be delivered to our mailbox.  Somehow, even with the invention of e-mail, it is now so much more difficult to keep in touch.  With all of the technology that is supposed to help make things easier, there are still not enough hours in each day!