A new book by Gracie Dolan

A Letter to Someone I No Longer Know or Have Not Met Yet

Time is change. Change is growth. Growth is art.

Front cover of A Letter to Someone I No Longer Know or Have Not Met Yet by Gracie Dolan: colourful paint brushstrokes framing a grandfather clock and the book's title on white.

About the book

Some letters are written to people we’ve lost touch with. Some are written to people we haven’t become yet. A Letter to Someone I No Longer Know or Have Not Met Yet lives in the space between — between who we were and who we’re still becoming.

It’s a meditation on time, change, and the quiet art of growing up and growing on. Gracie Dolan writes for anyone who has ever looked back at an old version of themselves like a stranger, or forward at a future self they can’t quite picture yet.

Time is inevitable. Change is inevitable. Growth is inevitable. Art is inevitable.

Share your own letter

This book began with one idea: that the people we used to be and the people we’re going to be have something to say to each other.

Now I’m collecting letters from others. I’m gathering letters from teenagers to their future selves, alongside letters from adults to their younger selves — to showcase the wisdom that comes from both perspectives: the dreams and uncertainties of youth, and the hard-won insights of experience.

If you’d like to take part, write your letter below. You’re welcome to be credited by name or to stay completely anonymous — whichever feels right to you.

Optional — leave blank to stay anonymous.

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Only if you’d like to be contacted. Never published.

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