If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through

If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

A heartwarming memoir of love and faith from Hannah Brencherâ€”founder of The World Needs More Love Lettersâ€”who has dedicated her life to showing total strangers that they are not alone in the world.

Fresh out of college, Hannah Brencher moved to New York, expecting her life to look like a scene from Sex and the City. Instead, she found a city full of people who knew where they were going and what they were doing and didnâ€™t have time for a girl still trying to figure it all out. Lonely and depressed, she noticed a woman who looked like she felt the same way on the subway. Hannah did something strangeâ€”she wrote the woman a letter. She folded it, scribbled â€œIf you find this letter, itâ€™s for youâ€¦â€ on the front and left it behind.

When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the cityâ€”in doctorâ€™s offices, in coat pockets, in library books, in bathroom stalls. Feeling crushed within a culture that only felt like connecting on a screen, she poured her heart out to complete strangers. She found solace in the idea that her words might brighten someoneâ€™s day.

Hannahâ€™s project took on a life of its own when she made an offer on her blog: She would handwrite a note and mail it to anyone who wanted one. Overnight, her inbox exploded with requests from people all over the world. Nearly 400 handwritten letters later, she started the website, The World Needs More Love Letters, which quickly grew.

There is something about receiving a handwritten note that is so powerful in todayâ€™s digital era. If You Find This Letter chronicles Hannahâ€™s attempts to bring more love into the worldâ€”and shows how she rediscovered her faith through the movement she started.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Howard Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 193602
ReleaseDate 2015-03-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476773605

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Howard Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	193602
ReleaseDate	2015-03-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476773605

If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers

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