A Basket of Hope

    The Letter. A Longer Short Story. Free Inspirational Read. An inspirational story to tug at your heart ******* The decluttering expert’s words came back to her as she reached up to the top shelf to retrieve the dilapidated box. “You can’t clean until you’ve decluttered.” It made sense, Pippa supposed. Besides, she needed something more substantial than dusting to take her mind off of her pain. She desperately needed a project that would keep her shattered self busy. Anything to keep her from crumbling into a million pieces on the bedroom floor. Perhaps it hadn’t been a wise idea though, to begin in the room she’d shared with Mac for over thirty years. She stiffened her spine and placed the dusty relic on her side of the bed. The box’s contents weren’t a mystery to her: in fact, she and the box had lived in the same house for many years. As each birthday had passed, as each letter had been read, Pippa’s mother had placed them in the box. Not in the careful way of some, with sentimen