This is a fairly common response to this album and I have decided to accept that about myself.

She reads her own letters back to herself in a voice that sounds like she still can't believe she said any of it. I listened on a closing shift and cried into the espresso machine. My manager pretended not to notice, which I appreciated.

Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond spent an hour on a question I have been asking myself for three years. They didn't answer it. That was the right move.

Five people recorded this while their relationships with each other were actively disintegrating. The whole album is like watching people try to hold something together that has already come apart, which is either the saddest thing or the most relatable thing depending on where you are in your life. Right now it is the most relatable thing. Ask me again in six months. (Laughing, nervously)