"More than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice"
—Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I wish you would’ve taken the treatment option and had surgery. A life with you but without your voice is a million times better than life without you. Life is a mess since you left us, B took nanny hostage. Nanny isn’t doing okay. She needed you to stay living but you choose to do an option that you know would kill you and did it anyways. I think your selfish for not thinking of the rest of your family because you wanted to keep your voice but we would have made it work for you.
You have missed out on so much since you left us. My brother got married and him and his wife are having a baby. Caroline is getting so big. Nanny has hearing aids now, stressed induced dementia, B took her license away and now she is trapped. Dad is having more heart issues.
Oh, and I won’t have you there when i get married and that makes me not want to ever get married. I needed you to be there to walk me through everything in my life like you did for 18 years. I hated when you refused treatment, I hated seeing you cold and dead in the hospital bed, then your casket and then when they shut the casket on you and we were all there watching it close. A part of me died that day and you took it with you.
I miss you so much and I love you so much.