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Also by Heather B. Armstrong:

Dear Daughter, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
It Sucked and Then I Cried, April 2009
Hardcover
Things I Learned About My Dad, May 2008
Hardcover

DEAR DAUGHTER
By: Heather B. Armstrong

The Best of the Dear Leta Letters

Gallery Books
April 2012
On Sale: April 3, 2012
192 pages
ISBN: 145166141X
EAN: 9781451661415
Kindle: B005GG0MC4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

A mother’s love is unconditional: There are quiet snuggles, off-key sing-alongs, un-controllable belly laughs, and daily miracles that only a parent can understand. Heather Armstrong first wrote to her daughter when Leta was just eight weeks old. For the next five years, Heather wrote a letter every month, capturing the ups and downs of motherhood and chronicling the milestones and surprises of their lives together. These are letters that we wish we had written for our own children: disarmingly honest, self-deprecating, heartwarming, and irreverently funny.

From the first time Leta holds a rattle; to her first steps; to her first curse word; to her excitement over becoming a big sister, Dear Daughter is a heart-felt and hilarious ode to the wonders of parent-hood that will have mothers everywhere nodding, laughing, and wiping away tears.

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Dear Leta,

You have changed so much since that first morning you spent with us, a morning that altered my life so drastically that sometimes it still feels like I’m catching my breath. I imagine that I won’t ever stop feeling this way, won’t ever stop having a portion of my brain dedicated to the thought of where you are and what you’re doing, won’t ever be able to escape the constant, nagging hope that you are happy and fulfilled. My pulse is forever close to the surface because of you, because of my responsibility toward you, and I can’t thank you enough for the dimension that this has added to what it means to be alive.

Love, Mama

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