Prologue
Dear Reader:
If you are reading this, then I am dead. That, or you just have no respect for people's privacy or lack of basic reading skills because I'm pretty sure it does say clearly on the box holding this document: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TIME IS RIGHT. Seriously. It's clearly written on the label. If I am still alive and well, I ask you to please (1) stop reading & (2) put this back where you found it. If in reality I am clearly and absolutely deceased then please continue reading.
For a while now, I've been thinking about taking my life, which is probably not a surprise for you. So either I've succeeded or just got lucky. However, though it seems that the time has come & this letter is now in the your hands; you, one of my closest, trusted friends (or all of you), I want you all to know that it's okay. I'm fine. I accepted the concept of death a long time ago, so please don't mourn for me now that I'm gone. You never mourned for me when I was alive. So my death should be no different.
XOXO,
Paige
