Upworthy · 48 days ago

She Was Scrolling a D.C. Blog and Saw Her Grandma's handwriting. the Lost Letter Was Addressed to her.

A letter tucked inside a donated book sat undisturbed for over two years until a stranger's curiosity and a neighborhood blog returned it to the woman it was written for. Katie Slocum had no more than a first name to go on, but she posted anyway - not just to complete a delivery, but, as she put it, because she "wanted to meet her." What followed was a reunion not only between a granddaughter and a piece of her history, but between Jackie Roche and her grandmother Irene, now 90, who have since grown closer than they were before the letter disappeared. The story carries a quiet irony: Jackie never knew the letter was missing, yet its recovery gave her something she didn't know she'd lost. Irene had written in 2003 that whatever life handed her granddaughter, Jackie would take it "with both hands and keep on dancing" - and somehow, two decades later, a stranger believed enough in that letter's worth to make sure it found its way home.