{"id":23544,"date":"2015-04-14T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=23544"},"modified":"2015-04-02T16:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T21:53:55","slug":"if-you-find-this-letter-my-journey-to-find-purpose-through-hundreds-of-letters-to-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/if-you-find-this-letter-my-journey-to-find-purpose-through-hundreds-of-letters-to-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Find this Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"if<\/a>In today’s world, it’s not uncommon to see many people concentrating more and more on their screens and less and less on the people in front of them. This sad fact hit Hannah Brencher when she moved to New York right after she graduated from college. As she was\u00a0exploring her new home, she discovered that instead of the warm and welcoming place she expected it\u00a0to be, she was surrounded by people who\u00a0knew exactly what they wanted to do, who knew exactly where they needed to be, and who were not the least bit concerned about a young girl who was just trying to figure things out and looking for help.<\/p>\n

Feeling somewhat defeated one day\u00a0at the subway station, she saw an old\u00a0woman who seemed to be in a similar lonely\u00a0situation.\u00a0Brencher was drawn to the woman and could not look away.\u00a0Staring at her, she remembered how her\u00a0mother used to write her love letters and how that simple piece of paper\u00a0always made her feel better because that meant someone else understood and cared about you. She decided then and there to write the woman a love letter. Sitting curled up on the train, Brencher hurriedly scrawled a note to this woman, wrote “If you find this letter, it’s for you…” on the front, and dropped it. Feeling better, she\u00a0began leaving love notes all over the city and eventually created the blog The World Needs More Love Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seeking help when her inbox reached over 400 requests for love letters, she created a campaign that you can subscribe to join to write love letters to perfect strangers.\u00a0If You Find this Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0is a memoir Brencher wrote describing her love-letter writing journey in her new home, how she began to feel more connected to the people around her, and how this simple letter writing campaign has helped her restore her belief in the goodness of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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