Hey Chris!

It’s Annie. 🙂 How are you? I hope all is well with you and your family. I know I’m supposed to call whenever I need to talk about something that’s bothering me, but nothing really is bothering me right now, so I thought I’d write instead.

I just started unpacking my boxes from Sunrise this morning; yes, it’s been two years. Seeing all the photos and junk I collected while I was at Sunrise made me keep thinking about memories I had there and made me smile. I miss everyone; and I won’t lie, I kind of miss group. But don’t repeat that to anybody.

Thank you for everything you taught me and left me with. You and Dave couldn’t have been better therapists for me. I still remember you and my last session like it was yesterday. It may have been our last session together, but was truly one of, actually, it was the hardest. Not the most awkward though. The most awkward was when you didn’t talk and I felt awkward and kept wondering why you wouldn’t speak so I kept talking because silence was even more awkward to me. Little did I know you were trying to see how long it would take me to notice you weren’t talking… trust me I noticed… just thought the more I talked the less awkward the session would be compared to if it were silent. Looking back, it’s kind of funny.

I miss you and Sunrise. I hope all is well. I will take everything I learned at Sunrise with me to college in the fall.

Love, “Annie”