Dear Mother, 

I was only ten when you took your life, and at the time I left like you took part of mine too. I’m old enough to see now that you didn’t intend to hurt me, you just wanted to stop hurting yourself.

I’ve felt almost every emotion possible over the last nine years and I've cried myself to sleep so many nights.

I just wanted to tell you, no matter what you did and no matter how bad I’ve left over the last years- I still love you.

No one else will replace the years you’ve given me.

Courtney, age 19