Woman Received Thousands Of Letters From Dad Growing Up, Now Anyone Can Request A ‘Letter From Dad’

Woman Received Thousands Of Letters From Dad Growing Up, Now Anyone Can Request A ‘Letter From Dad’

A woman who was blessed with a loving father as her pen pal while growing up has decided to share her gift—her father—with the world.

Starting the Dad Letter Project, she’s now connecting the love of letter writing among a group of fathers with a world of lonely, discouraged, or simply curious people.

The story centers around the heartwarming 30 year-relationship of Buz Ecker and his daughter Rosie Paulik. Whatever the event was—a weekend, the week before summer camp, the first day of university, the day she moved into her first apartment, Paulik would receive a letter from her dad in the mail.

Throughout her young life, she received a letter from dad virtually every 10 days, until a box in her house contained 3,500. With so many letters they often began to feel like journal entries, with dad Ecker actively narrating what was happening around him, or even small curiosities like the sandwich he was eating at the time.

Paulik’s 2-year-old son Andrew is now the recipient of the prolific paternal figure, but she began to wonder if Ecker’s gift could be used to spruce up both the world, and her dad’s retirement.

“Sometimes, you just need a dad to remind you that you’re doing great, to offer unsolicited life advice, or to tell you a joke so bad you have no choice but to laugh. It’s like a hug, but on paper,” the project’s website said.

“People wanted to hear from a dad. They wanted to hear from a father figure,” Paulik told ABC News about the Dad Letter Project. “So many people don’t receive anything in the mailbox besides maybe coupons and bills. [The dads] are coming up with words to say for you, they’re putting the address on the envelope, putting a stamp on it and sending it out. It’s so authentic and special.”

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Ecker is currently spending his summer in Michigan, and he’s writing sometimes 3 or 4 letters to people a day. Such was the demand that Ecker and Paulik had to find other pen-happy dads to join the program.

Each participant requests a letter based around a topic or event in their lives, which may be somber or celebratory, or something else entirely.

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“I address the problems that they have as best as I can. I’m honored that they write me, and I’m happy to write them back,” Ecker told ABC News.

WATCH the story below from ABC…