The letter you've been meaning to write

I keep a short list of people I owe a thank-you to. Not the easy ones. The ones I'll probably never see again, which is exactly why they're still unsent.

One of them gave me a ride home when I had no way back, and didn't make it a thing. I said thanks at the curb. That's not the same as saying what it meant.

Here's what I'd write now:

You didn't have to do that. You probably forgot it by Wednesday. I didn't. Whatever you thought you were doing that night, what I got was proof the world would catch me if I fell. I've been braver since. You don't know it's because of you.

That's the whole letter. It doesn't need a gift, and it doesn't need a reason. It needs to arrive.

Tomorrow is World Gratitude Day. A made-up holiday, sure. But a date is a reason, and a reason is the one thing most thank-yous are missing.

If you have someone on your list, I'll write it. Tell me who they are and one true thing about them. You get two rounds of revisions, and I record myself reading it out loud, so you hear it land before it's out of your hands.

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