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Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. Use when someone says 'help me write a letter to my kids/partner', 'legacy letter', 'ethical will', 'something for them to have when I'm gone', or is facing illness, aging, deployment, or simply wants to. Produces a warm, true letter in the writer's own voice — one to each person, or one to all — plus a light plan for when and how it's found. An emotional-legacy tool, not legal (it is not a will).

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# Legacy Letter Skill

A will distributes your things; a legacy letter gives your people the things a will
can't — the stories only you remember, what you were proud of, what you're sorry
for, the specific reasons you loved them, and the permission to be okay. Also called
an ethical will, it's one of the most treasured objects a family can hold, and most
people mean to write one and never do because the blank page is too heavy. This skill
makes it doable: it interviews gently, finds the true and specific things (not
Hallmark platitudes), and shapes them into a letter that sounds unmistakably like the
writer — because the voice is the gift.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **legacy letter** in the writer's real voice — one per person, or one to all,
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