What would you want the next person in your shoes to know?

For the next person facing a serious illness, or sitting beside someone who is. One honest sentence is enough, and every letter stays anonymous.

Nothing publishes on its own. A person reads every letter before it's shared, and identifying details come out first. You can have it taken down anytime, no questions.
If you're in crisis right now, please reach out. Call or text 988, or text HOME to 741741.
Are you the one who's ill, or supporting someone who is?
Be specific if you can. "Glioblastoma," not just "cancer."
Roughly where you were when you needed to hear from someone.
Even one line. Whatever you'd want someone like you to hear. If you're not sure where to start:
  • The good days still come, even now.
  • The scan was stable and I cried in the parking lot.
  • Please stop telling me how strong I am.
  • Let me tell you who she is besides sick.
  • You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
  • Some days it's just about getting through. That counts.

It doesn't have to be advice. Good news counts. So does anger, or something funny, or something about who your person is.

A little more, if you want

This is what helps the right person find your letter. All optional.

Now, or back then, whatever fits. Pick any.
Or were, at the time.
A first name, an initial, or leave it blank.
Just for us, never published

Your email lets us confirm we got your letter and lets you pull it back anytime. It's never shown or shared.

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Thank you. We have your letter.

We review every one before it's shared, and nothing is public until then. Your letter is saved with your email, so you can change it or take it down anytime. We hope it reaches someone a few steps behind you.

If writing it meant something, say so somewhere. A sentence in your own words about why you wrote — wherever you post — reaches people we never could.

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