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...ended) is "You are a man and I'm not looking for male pals, so I don't want to be with your pen pal." Sentences that express what you want is much more effective and non-offensive way of refusal than blaming the person who wrote you for who they are or what they did. This technique is not only about pen pals, but is described in many books on assertiveness.Conclude with a positive statement. Here the sample wishes for good luck in finding someone else to write. You don't have to be overpolite, but a positive conclusion makes the recipient feel better and keeps good impression on you. I experienced this before, too. In many of these cases the correspondence ends gradually because we both feel our friendship is not working well. Either of us stops writing one day and the other understands what it means. This is similar to natural end of friendship in real world (i.e. friends we go out with). If you stop writing and your pen pal does not reply anymore, that's that - especially if you think your pen pal has also been feeling uncomfortable. However, some people do not think that their pen pals are feeling uncomfortable. They wonder why their pen pal has not been writing recently, so they may ask why. In that case, or if you want to call it off in...