Dear PDR,

I would give my entire life if I could make you happy again. Even if it’s just for a week. I would do anything to make you feel better. To feel like this isn’t the end. I wanted to say all of these things to you that day. To say that I know you are unhappy, and that you use humor to cover up your pain. I see it. I feel it. There isn’t a thing that I wouldn’t give to fix you. I know of the horrors that you have seen, and I want you to let me in. I know I can help. Even if it takes my pain to make you happy. I only wish I could help take away the pain for just a little while.

Love,
Aly, age 21