My private messages to a lifelong friend who died | Letters

Heather Lee, who finds comfort in sending her late friend messages on Twitter, notes that everyone grieves differently

I’m writing in response to Justin Myers’ article on the death of his friend (‘It was a bad dream – but I never woke up’: what it is like to lose your best friend, 18 September). This happened to me last year, so it’s still quite raw.

I’d known my friend since I was a baby, and four decades later she died of a heart attack. It is hard. When our close group of friends meet up, it feels like a part of us is missing, because it is.