250+ Love Letters for Amy

This spring, you helped create the sweetest Mother’s Day surprise for a woman who could not deserve it more.

Amy is a devoted wife and phenomenal mother who wears the weight of the world on her shoulders. Her husband battles with depression and mental health, her daughter was diagnosed with t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia at 15 years old in 2014, and shortly after the diagnosis, she found out her son had become a heroin addict, which left her other daughter missing out. Thankfully, her daughter was healed from cancer. Her son also cleaned up, but, unfortunately, relapsed in 2020 and passed away from an overdose.

Amy has fought for her family through every obstacle and tragedy, but struggles with feeling as though she has to focus on everyone else without taking care of herself. She is walking through her own battle with depression, and suffering from feeling a lack of joy and purpose.

Her daughter Emma writes, “she hides her pain and carries on, but I want her to know that people see her. That they have seen what she has done and are proud of her because of it.”

Amy needed a reminder that she wasn’t alone - that there is still space for light and hope.

Your letters were that reminder.

Emma learned of More Love Letters when founder Hannah Brencher came to speak at her school, and her fellow students thought it was amazing that Emma’s mom was now one of the love letter bundle recipients. She had help from friends as she went through all of the letters, prepping the bundle to surprise her mom.

“I am now home for the summer and expect to get a few more letters but for the most part have received them all,” she wrote. “I decided today being Mother's Day was the best time for me to give them to her. She was completely touched and surprised by the whole thing. I pulled out my favorite cards separately and many of those brought her to tears.”

The letters were just the reminder that Amy needed - that she doesn’t have to carry the weight of the world alone.

“Thank you so much for what y'all do,” Emma wrote. “It has truly touched her.”