missives raze when she was a kindergarten student living sixty miles west of kapuskasing on the mattawishkwia river, she sent him a picture she drew of a girl with windswept hair holding a balloon. birds swirled around her. he wrote back. they sent letters back_and_forth for two years before he went to meet her. she was living with her sister in the basement of a chinese restaurant. she sent letters to strangers all over the world. she was a lonely child looking for a friend. she found him. she showed him around her town. she brought him to visit her grandmother's grave. he wrote a book about her. almost thirty years later, she still writes him letters. someday soon he won't know who he is anymore. she'll be there to remind him. 220722 what's it to you? who go blather from