Grieving parents find secret letter their daughter wrote to her 22-year-old self

Tim and Mary Smith’s lives were shattered when their 12-year-old daughter, Taylor, died. On January 5, 2014, the creative, happy, and intelligent girl suddenly passed away after losing the battle against pneumonia.

When the worst of the shock subsided, Taylor’s parents started going through their daughter’s things. In one box, they found a letter that their daughter had addressed to her adult self. The letter was to be opened in 2023, but since Taylor could no longer open it, the Smiths did.

Of course, the couple were surprised that their daughter had written a letter to her future self, but when they read their daughter’s words, they couldn’t hold back the tears.

Hearing Taylor’s voice again, through her words in the letter, was consoling to Tim and Mary. And they shared their daughter’s heart-rending letter online, where hundreds of thousands of people have read it.

Parents Tim and Mary Smith lost their daughter, Taylor, to pneumonia when their little girl was only 12-years-old. After some time, the Tennessee couple went through their late daughter’s things, and happened to find a mysterious letter.

Taylor wrote a letter to her future self on April 13, 2013, and sealed the note writing that it was to be opened on April 13, 2023. Taylor would have been 22-years-old.

The envelope’s design is reminiscent of an official document, as if it were something important. And the only thing that revealed the writer’s identity was Taylor’s handwriting.