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"i opened it alone in my kitchen at midnight. i read the letter and i felt like someone had been watching my entire life and finally decided to tell me it was okay."
"i have never received something in the mail that made me feel less broken. not fixed. less broken. there is a difference and benjamin knows it."
"i cancelled every subscription i had. this is the only one i kept. because this is the only one that knows my name."
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only if you choose it. edition + avalon: you pay the price shown above today for this edition, and your first month of avalon is free. after that, avalon is €29,95 a month for a new sealed letter, until you cancel. edition only is €69,95: one envelope, nothing recurring.
no. this is a single edition, purchased once. there is no recurring billing, no membership required.
avalon is the monthly mail club these editions were made for. a new sealed envelope every month, beginning with the current edition, for as long as you stay. your first month is free with this edition. after that it is €29,95 a month. one complimentary month per customer.
yes. each edition is its own envelope, and each page adds its own. the free avalon month comes once: when avalon is already in your cart, another edition is added on its own, at €69,95. one complimentary month per customer.
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yes. this edition has already reached 41 countries. shipping is free in the united states. everywhere else, it is calculated at checkout.
a signed and numbered fine art print (5.5 × 8 inches), the full written manuscript of "the strawberry," a handwritten letter, chapter five of the hopeless wanderer, the mark of sweetness, a keepsake magnet of the artwork, and the ritual of finding. seven things. all sealed by hand.
yes. this edition was first made for avalon members, and it is now offered one final time. ten thousand letters will exist in this world. not one more. there is no reprint. when they are gone, the edition is archived for good.
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this is real
a hospital floor. an iv drip. a diving helmet. watch how the strawberry was made.
a letter, before you decide
this edition began on the worst day of someone i love.
tom is a man of mountains and wind. on that day his tendons had been cut and sewn back together like torn fabric, and he sat on a cold hospital floor, not knowing if his legs would ever carry him up a mountain again.
and in his hands, he held a strawberry. cradled, the way you hold the last sacred thing on earth. because it was.
i know there is something you are going through. i will not pretend to know its name. but i know what it tells you. it tells you that life begins later. that peace lives somewhere past this storm. that sweetness is something you will be allowed again, once the pain is over.
you see, tom did not find the strawberry because his pain had ended. he found it because he refused to let pain be the only thing that existed. he reached for the sweetness while still on the floor. that is the deepest bravery i know.
the world teaches us to wait. to postpone joy until we have earned it. until the news changes, until the debt is paid, until the house is quiet. and so we wait, and wait, and wait. and while we wait, our one life passes us by.
the strawberry has always been here. in the breath you just took. in the heart that still beats. in the person beside you whose warmth you stopped feeling because the pain was too loud.
i made this edition for the worst day of your life. not to take it away. to remind you, right there on the floor, that the sweetness was never waiting for the storm to end.
inside is a signed and numbered fine art print of "the strawberry." a manuscript that tells tom's story: the worst day, and what he held on to through it. and a handwritten letter from me to you, because some words cannot travel through a screen. they have to arrive in your hands.
it arrives sealed. by hand. with the ritual of finding inside, for the next time the floor is cold: something sweet, a place to sit, and the courage to ask the only question that matters.
this edition was made for Avalon members. now it is offered one final time. ten thousand letters will exist in this world. not one more. it does not return. it does not reprint. what passes, passes.
so wherever you are reading this from. whatever is heavy right now. the worst can happen. and still. still there is a strawberry. find it. hold it. taste it. and let it save your life.
i love you.
bv
how to open it
when the envelope arrives, do not tear it open. set it down somewhere quiet. light a candle. breathe. this is the last moment before it begins.
break the seal. take each piece out one at a time. the artwork first. then the manuscript. then the letter. then the chapter, the mark and the keepsake. last, the ritual card. the order matters. the order is the ritual.
you will feel something move in your chest. maybe it is grief. maybe it is the first sweetness in a long time. do not rush past it. do not explain it. it was never waiting for the storm to end. it was always here.