A Note from Emily Dickinson

I'm reading a collection of Emily's letters. My mum fears that I will turn into a recluse like Emily did. I know that there is more to Emily than her unusual social manners, so I have undertaken a study of her life. Her letters to friends and family are sweet and honest and hilarious at times. My favorite line so far comes at the end of a lengthy letter written when she was 14 to her childhood friend, Abiah.

 I have looked my letter over, and find I have written nothing worth reading.

And then she sent it anyway.

So, Emily Dickinson was a babbler, and she knew it. I like you better already, Em.