"Our original idea really wrapped around the iPad app, because we [McEachern and her husband] were having problems connecting with our long distance friends and family a couple of years ago when we had our twin boys," she said.
The young people exchange email addresses, happy to make long distance friends.
Sure, she has a long-distance friend she knows only as SmallvilleGuy, but she's his hero, not the other way around.
By the time I was lucky enough to meet Armistead and become his long-distance friend, biographer and lousy correspondent, his creation had already exerted a powerful influence on my own writing.
Random acts of kindness can be the most thrilling: leaving something thoughtful on a colleague's desk, sending a book to a long-distance friend, showing up with flowers for no reason except that they were beautiful and you wanted to share that beauty with someone else.
If you accomplish enough goals, you can unlock lifetime rewards like "long-distance friend," which means that even if you don't see or speak with your friends for a long time, they don't drift away because they know you're there for them.
One day I lamented my fate during a phone call with a long-distance friend and she recommended I check out a few blogs she had been reading.
Two weeks ago I published an open letter here to a long-time, long-distance friend after I learned she had voted for Donald Trump.
This time around, Steve Soboslai decided he wanted to express how deep his feelings have grown for his long-distance friend Dana.
It can also include the neighbors you haven't yet met, the hiking group you still want to join, or the long-distance friend you might want to go visit.
