Here is an excerpt from an open letter I am drafting; I intend to release it within the next couple weeks. Some of you may think I am wasting my time writing a letter like this. I welcome your insights. In the meantime:
I write this letter to you as a person you have shared birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, and holidays with, a person you grew up with, a person you sponsored during Confirmation into the Catholic Church, a person who navigated Korean culture with you, a person who partied with you and swam laps with you in high school. I write as a person who has exchanged travel stories with you. I write as a person who has exchanged stories with you about first loves and heartbreaks.
I write this as a man who is forever grateful to the adopted rural-suburban Wisconsin family for the way you welcomed me into your family more than a decade ago. […]
Suffice it to say, I write this letter to you because you have played a part in my life, and/or you have given me perspective, and/or you were a close friend in lifetimes past, or you play an important role in my life now.
