One of my coworkers wrote to in the contest Letters About Literature and wrote this amazing letter to the author she chose to write to. Her letter was super inspirational and really touches me in areas. I dunno if I cried out of joy for her or if I cried because I could empathize with the pain she felt and the break through she had. Or all of it!

I love how she says that she was able to see she could be all the things that made her amazing at once without having to be accepted by others. She was able to overcome the feeling of guilty and letting others down for not being what they needed her to be and to just grow so much from it. It's amazing that the books touched her so much. This is pure proof that books can have an amazing effect on people. That people have a major effect on people. It also shows that one person's talent to write and persevere through writing a series helped another feel free. Now this girl's words will be read by not only the author but by so many other people and it will touch them like it touched me. It's a chain effect. A beautiful one at that.