Love, Me

At eleven years old, Shannon Hogan-Cohen began writing letters to her father, who would never read them. What started as a young girl's desperate attempt to hold onto the man she adored evolved into a lifelong conversation across time, loss, and healing. In Love, Me, Shannon shares decades of raw, unfiltered diary entries chronicling her grief, anger, and aching loneliness as she navigates childhood, adolescence, and adulthood without her father. Through heartbreak, triumphs, and moments of reckoning, these letters capture a daughter's struggle to make sense of a world that has been forever altered.

As the years unfold, the father she idolized in childhood gives way to a more complicated truth: a man who was human, flawed, and no longer confined to the pedestal of memory. With maturity comes an unexpected shift-resentment towards her mother softens as Shannon begins to understand the hidden burdens that adults carry.

Woven alongside these intimate reflections are insights from the author's therapist, providing readers with a compassionate framework for exploring their own grief and healing. Love, Me is more than a memoir-it's an invitation to anyone longing to find peace with the past and a reminder that even in absence, love endures.