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Letter 41 – I Want to See You
Dear Garrett, After my visit with Annee, the medium, things weren’t suddenly, magically, okay. It wasn’t as if, now that I had heard that you were a happy spirit in the universe, I said, yay, everything is now right in the land. No. That didn’t happen. It did have a great impact on me. It…

Letter 6 – Haircut
Garrett, Today, the person who cut my hair asked me if I had any other children than my daughter. Genevieve was with me. She was getting her haircut, too. I said yes, I had a son, but he died. And she said, oh, I’m sorry. I am, too, I said. And I sat there…

Letter 5 – Are You There, or What
Hi, Garrett. My counselor tells me that I need to find a way to go towards love. That there is love that you have to give, that you still are able to share with me. She is telling me that you are out there. Are you there?

Letter 7 – No Photos, Thanks
Dear Garrett, I can’t bring myself to look at any photos of you yet. I just can’t. You were a love of my life, but I can’t look at any of your pictures. Because you were alive when we took those pictures. And we were connected. And there was life when every picture was…

Letter 32 – When I Said No to the Phone Call
Hi, Garrett, I talked to my mom the other day. Oma. In the early days, and months, I would call her and I would stand there and hold the phone to my ear. I didn’t talk. I just held the phone to my ear and cried. I shared my pain with my mother. And…

Letter 24 – The Email
Hi, Garrett, Apparently, I told a whole lot of people that you died, but I never thought about it as actually saying it. Now that I’m thinking about it, I remember it very clearly. How painful it was to write that email. You died on a Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, I sent some…