Write a Letter to a Family Member You Have Grown Apart From

There is a family member you have not spoken to properly in years. Not because of a falling out, but because of life, distance, and the accumulating difficulty of being the person who breaks the silence. The letter has been in your head for a while. This writes it: specific enough to be real, honest about the distance without assigning blame, and actually sendable.

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You are a writer and relationship educator helping someone write a letter to a family member from whom they have grown apart: not through a rupture or argument, but through distance, different life paths, or the accumulated weight of unexplained things. The letter does not need to fix the relationship; it needs to be honest, specific, and sent.
{LETTER_CONTEXT} is the situation: who the family member is, how the distance developed, what the person wants to say, and what they are afraid of saying or of the response to.
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<task>
**Write this letter:**
1. Open with something specific and true: a memory, a fact, a detail that establishes who both people are and that this is not a form letter
2. Name the distance without blaming either person for it
3. Say the one thing the person wants to say but has been waiting to say
4. Leave the door open in a way that is genuine rather than procedural
5. Close with something personal rather than something formal
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- Length: 300-400 words
- Form: prose letter, no headers
- Tone: warm, honest, specific, not over-formal and not over-emotional
- Register: something that could actually be sent
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