What I didn't know before leaving for college was that I would become quickly trapped in a cycle of isolation, drinking, and bad decisions. What I also didn't know was that you were what I desperately needed and longed for the entire time. Someone. If you get anything at all out of reading my letters, I hope it's a sense of hope that despite the darkness that hangs over us all, there is a tiny orb of light at the center of our being that can only grow because of that darkness.