The Tradition of a Birthday Letter by Joy Sunyoung Fitzgerald

On the eve of every birthday of my children, I sit alone with a pen and paper to write a letter.

The letter tells them about their last year of life.

It is my way of recording milestones + small memories and an opportunity to remind them of how I adore their unique beauties.

On their eighteenth birthday, I will give them a box filled with eighteen of these letters.

For now, these letters live in a big memory box alongside the countless little notes and creations my family has gifted one another over the years.

The thought of them as older men and women reading these letters does a certain inexplicable thing deep within me.

I hope the words will bless them for a lifetime.

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