I lost my brother, Paul-Michael (Mike), in 2013 and my life changed. I became consumed with overwhelming grief, shock, disbelief, anger, sadness… I felt that these emotions didn’t have a place to go- I called his old number until it got reassigned and would compose & delete texts to send to him. 6 years later, I decided to write a letter to him and realized how cathartic it was to write things down and update him on my life, to ask him things I never did, to explore emotions and thoughts “out loud” and I wanted to share-