Dear Senior Year 4

Just last week, as I walked along the river at sunset, I had a moment where all I felt for this place was love.

Dear Senior Year 3

My best friends now include people I met on the first day of freshman year and people I didn’t meet until this fall.

Dear Senior Year 2

You ran with me through the Samaritans 5K, a fundraiser for suicide prevention, and the Cambridge Half Marathon, to which I wore all blue.

Dear Senior Year 1

Sometimes we are even lucky enough to take old friends along with us, those we see walking the same way.

DJY Museum

I liked Italian you. Open, friendly, unafraid.

DJY Church Ceiling

Rome was welcoming in all the right ways.

Dear Junior Year Cover

DJY Friends

I committed myself to this new life I was living, my life after loss. I committed to finding joy in it and to fighting for better.

MG KT 14p Portrait

I knew who I was, I knew who my friends were.

New York, New York

Summer ended up being everything all at once.

DYS seasons

I daydreamed of a winter of snowmen on the sidewalk and cozy movie nights, and a spring that left me begging to stay.

DSY Friend

There’s a bright side to hardship, the way shared grief makes room for new friendships that quickly turn to family.

DYS friends

Some things never change.

Dear Sophomore Year Cover

One year after publishing “Dear Freshman Year,” MG returns to write a letter to her sophomore year.

Sophia Warhol Wig