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Seven small letters, then quiet.

A patient companion for the year after, in your inbox.

I'm Margaret. I wrote a journal for the year after losing someone you loved. I also wrote a smaller thing — seven short letters, one a day for a week — for the people who aren't ready for a journal yet, or who would rather be written to than write back.

These letters are free. There are exactly seven of them. After that they stop. No newsletter, no upsells, no firehose.

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Day 0 should land in your inbox within a few minutes. If it doesn't, check your spam folder and mark it "not spam" so the rest find their way to you. The next six arrive once a day for the following week, then they stop.

— Margaret

What the seven are

  1. A patient companion, for whenever this is. Who I am and what this isn't.
  2. The first month is its own country. The part nobody warns you about.
  3. The third day, the third week. Why the third week is harder than the funeral.
  4. The silence when both stop. What to do when the calls and casseroles end.
  5. You are not in charge of the weather. Why there are no stages.
  6. The forgetting and the remembering. What to do with their things.
  7. What comes next. Going on versus moving on.