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Chinese man’s 3,000km search for pen pal from 24 years ago sparks deep nostalgia

A man from southern China travelled 3,000 kilometres to search for his pen pal from 24 years ago, stirring nostalgia among many for their own youth pen pals. Li Zhicong, around 40, hails from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and has been working in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, for over a decade. Recently, he journeyed 3,000 km to Inner Mongolia in northern China to find his pen pal “Ice Rain,” who wrote him a letter 24 years ago. In 2002, when he was a third-year junior secondary school...

Published by South China Morning Post

Where: China

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china: 35.860, 104.200

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