"And that is what I'd like you to take away from this book--an appreciation for how powerful your words are. How powerful our language is and how effective the two can be in tangible form. Letters instigate understanding, change, and closure. Letters are a chance for all of us to live well beyond our allotted years. They can and will affect the recipient, but what's oftentimes greater (and more surprising) is the effect letters have on the writer--who may be coming face-to-face with his or her thoughts and feelings for the first time. Letters have been perforning acts--both ordinary and extraordinary--for several hundred millennia and I'd like to make sure they continue to do so."
Samara O'Shea
I should have known when I picked up this book that I would have liked it. One of the most vibrant, interesting, and intelligent roommates I had in college was a lass named Samara. (She now writes poetry and plays the cello surrounded with her beautiful children.)
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