"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 miss you. It’s just that simple. I could sit here for hours and type thing after thing after thing that makes me miss you, but there’s no use in that. I miss you. I know it hasn’t been that long, not even a year, but it feels like it’s been forever. December 25, 2013 will haunt me forever. Never again will my Christmases be happy. I know you’d want us to be happy and celebrate as if nothing ever happened, but it’s just impossible. You left a hole in everyone’s hearts and it can’t ever be filled. What honestly hurts me the most though, is that I never got to say goodbye. July 30, I looked at you and said, “Goodbye,” and was about to walk out if the door when you said, “It’s never goodbye, it’s see you later, always. Because someday, somehow, we will always see each other again.” I remember how you would love to here me sing to Elvis songs to you, all soft and sweet. Now, every time I sing, my heart breaks all over again, and the worst part is, is that I can’t seem to stop singing. I try and try ... Read more

About four years ago Grandma found this amazing guy that made her so happy. I have never seen Grandma so happy. It was because she met and married you. The two short years that you two were married you made her so happy so in result you made me happy. I miss you everyday and it’s days like today (opening day of hunting season) that I miss you the most. The hunting stories you told always made us laugh and just other stories that you told. Some were funny others were wise, but either way I could’ve listened to you all day. Also I’m so sorry that I didn’t tell you more often ‘ I love you’ because I did, I do. Papa, please if your heaven keep a watchful eye out for Grandma, cause we both know how ditzy she it lol. We all miss you terribly but we understand that you were in pain and now you’re not and that makes me so happy. Papa, hopefully you have saved room for Grandma in your heart for the (hopefully long tome away) departure of Grandma. She still loves you so much and she talks to you often. Hopefully you ... Read more

It’s been nine years since you left. Exactly nine years. Do you remember that Sunday, the 9th of October? It was the last time I saw you. The last time you said “See you on Friday”. I would have never thought it was our last goodbye. When dad told me that you died…I didn’t believe him…it was impossible. Impossible for me to accept the idea that the only person I loved has left me. You haven’t been just an uncle. For me you were a dad, a best friend…an angel on earth. In seven years you’ve given me memories for a lifetime. Lessons for a lifetime. A life within seven years. They might have thought that it didn’t hurt much…because I was only a child. But it did,uncle…it did. And it’s still hurts after almost a decade. I still hope that you’ll come back someday and that I’d leave the world behind just to spend a few minutes with you by the river. Well, although I sometimes hope… In these nine years I grew up and the world changed me..destroying even the smallest hopes I had. Can you see me? Do you know that ... Read more

I remember the first time I held you in my arms. You were so small, so I was careful not to squeeze you. Your little hands were reaching something in the air that I can’t see, and I smiled. Later that night, when Mom was too tired to stay up, I watched you sleep peacefully in your cot. I promised that night I’ll take care of you as best as I can, and that you’ll always have me by your side.

But after five years, you were needed. Up there, in the heavens with the angels. You left me all of a sudden, and it was too much. Mom and Dad misses you everyday. And I do, too. I can’t do anything but hope you’re being taken good care of up there. And I hope, someday, we’ll meet again.

Happy 12th birthday.

Since I read Love Letters to the Dead I understood some things. I tried to forget you telling me that I wasn’t thinking about you but I haven’t succeeded. I know you don’t go unterstand what I will tell because you didn’t read the book but when I first read the passages between Laurel and Sky I found that it was really a perfect relationship and that is what I would have wished with you. I know that there will be nothing between you and me because I ended this relationship and that there this distance and studies but I want you to know I miss you so much and that ever I will forget you. When Laurel written to Kurt Cobain, she often spoke of the song Heart-Shaped Box but I’m still leading Where Did you Sleep Last Night. I just wanna say one last time : I love you. Goodbye Aym.

Eu sinto tanto a sua falta. Eu sonhei com você essa semana, lembra quando seus pais viajaram e a gente fez a maior bagunça na sua casa? Acho que nunca ri tanto como naquele fim de semana. Me desculpa por não ter sido uma amiga melhor, por não ter sido capaz de salvar você de você mesma, por não ter te ajudado da maneira que eu deveria. Por fingir que estava tudo bem. Eu sei que você pensava diferente, mas eu te digo com toda a certeza do mundo: Você era perfeita. Nunca na minha vida eu conheci alguém como você, você era tão inteligente, e tão forte. Eu sempre quis ser um pouco mais como você. Sabe, eu fiquei com raiva de você por muito tempo, eu não conseguia acreditar que você tinha me abandonado, que você tinha sido tão egoísta a ponto de não pensar em mim antes de fazer o que você fez. Eu me culpei também, por não ter tido a coragem de contar pra alguém o que estava acontecendo, por fingir que estava tudo bem, que você podia aguentar tudo aquilo.Eu fui tão ingênua. Mas hoje eu entendo por que fez o que fez. Você pensou que era a ... Read more

Hi I guess. It’s been 2 years since you passed and it feels like just yesterday that you were hugging me and telling me how much you love me. I live you grandma. I know you will never read this but after reading this brilliant novel it just made me want to tell you somethings that have happened in the pass 2 years. For example, mommy wants to get pregnant again. I’m now in the 9th grade. Grandma all I wanted to, and still do, is make you proud. I love you.

You left me, why didn’t you think of others you were effecting when you did this to yourself? I hate you so much for leaving but I love you so much that I cant help but spend my days listening to your Cd’s you made for me. Listening to your voice, smooth and gentle, calming me down until I fall Asleep. I miss you so much, I wish you were so you could hold me and it would be just like old times.. I wish you would have talked to me, I was here. I could have helped and now I hate myself because I didn’t push to find out what was wrong. I’m sorry I let you down.

reading this amazing book has brought back so many memories of our childhood together. You were the first “sister” that I had – my hero. For the longest time, everything I knew I had learned from you. If you were around, I was 100% sure what to do and felt safe and protected. If I am being very honest with myself, it is this feeling that I’ve been missing ever since you left. To be the younger one, to have someone who knows better than me and will guide me. I always felt kind of lost afterwards – I can so much identify with Laurel’s struggles to find her own identity after she has lost her role model Amy.

This book made me cry about you – and how amazing it would have been to grow up with you. But I also cried about myself and about the struggle I’ve been going through without really realizing. And about my sister, and how glad I am to have her, and that I want to stay a good role model for her.

I miss you!

Thanks for the book, I say this because I just finished reading it and definitely can not describe how grateful I am for your great work! I really liked the characters and especially Laurel. I hope a book with the same tone of sincerity and brilliance of “Love Letters to the Dead ”

Thank you