part 6

8 months after the crash, Matt and I had almost fully rearranged our lives. He had gone back to work, and I went back to school. Soon we got on really well and we never had a fight or any problems. A woman from the youth welfare office came along a few times and tried to persuade me to move to a distant relative of ours who lived in South Carolina. But I wanted to stay at Matt's side and she was eventually fine with that, as she could see that we coped with the situation really well.So one day as I came back from school and Matt wasn't home yet, there was a small brown envelope in our letterbox.The letter was adressed to me and I was surprised as we didn't get a lot of mail these days. I searched for a sender but it was anonymous. So I quickly opened it to see who could have sent it. It was from inside New Jersey, at least that was what the post stamp said.
This was what the letter said:

Dear Sarah,
some months ago I got the letter you sent me, and as I read it over and over, my feelings overwhelmed me and I was moved to tears. I just couldn't believe what you wrote and that it had really happened.
You must excuse me, but there are a lot of people who would write something like that, just to call attention to themselves, but you didn't even include your adress so I couldn't have answered you and that really draw my attention. I called all hospitals in New Jersey and asked for a girl that had layen in coma for some weeks and only one hospital had had someone like that called Sarah. So they gave me your name and I phoned your brother and he told me that all you had written was true.
I am really sorry for what happend to you and your brother and I was so touched that our music could actually help you to get out of that dark place.Thank you for telling me your feelings and what you saw and heard and felt when you were trapped in that blackness.I really appreciate you being so frank to me and it really changed something in me. It sort of switched something over deep inside me and my friends keep telling me that I behave so different now. I seem to be nicer to everyone and not so moody anymore, but the truth is that I'm just so grateful to be alive and to be able to give some of my feelings and my love to other people, that I seem to view everything in a different light.
And I wanted to thank you for that, Sarah. Because of you small things now seem far more valueable than before and I spend more time with my kids and my wife now. I just don't want to waste any other second of my life with dispensable things anymore. Thank you.
Maybe I can tell you that personally...next week we are doing a concert back here in New Jersey and I wondered if you and your brother would like to join us. I would be delighted to meet you personally. The other guys want to meet you too, by the way. I told them about your letter and they hope that you'll come to the concert.
Here's my cellphone nr.: xxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx
Call me when you or your brother need something. I know it must be a hard time you are going through and you should know, that your not alone.Just as I told you before, I'll be there for you, and although we don't know each other, I really mean that. You don't deserve being in that situation and nobody should go through it alone.

Jon