Day 23 — Memory Boxes ✅: And then there were 3 😱 I’ve officially gone through 25 shoeboxes looking at every card, photo, ticket stub, and program I received in my (our) adult-ish life.

A HUGE job and I had to let myself free float through the emotions. School to school, job to job, city to city, ALS to Team Drea to marathons…my whole life reflected in scraps of memories 🥹 I watched your kids grow up in holiday card form, photos disappear as they moved onto phones, and letters get replaced by emails. As tedious as it was, I’m glad I did it … and I’m glad it’s done 😅 . Talk about gratitude: the outpouring of love and friendship and community has sustained me, pure and simple. I’ve lived a beautiful, privileged life for sure, despite ALS and also because of it. I shudder to think of how many people I never would have met — or reconnected with — without it. . My other takeaway is I want to be as good of a friend as everyone has been to me. But this time, YOU get to keep the cards 🤣🤣