Shar Caldwell

Dear Anderson, It’s Thursday evening, August 15, 2019, and I’m watching your interview with Stephen Colbert. In particular, I’m extraordinarily touched by the effects your mother’s life and loss has had on you, your role in her life and the great sensitivity in which you express your feelings and reflections in coming to terms living life without her. "Your Northern Star!" I'm reminded of the first night you returned to your CNN broadcast and spoke about no longer having anyone who was there in the beginning if I recall correctly, which struck me greatly. I had never heard anyone else express this thought. This year, on my birthday, just shortly before your mother's demise, I realized for the first time there was no one alive who remembers when I was born; no one who can speak to those times or the circumstances of my birth. So when you spoke, it helped me knowing someone else had a similar thought or feeling. In closing, please know by choice I am not a person who subscribes to or is a part of the world of social media. Nor am I a person who has ever written something such as this to someone such as you. However, after watching today's broadcast and listening to your exchange with Stephen, I do this exceptional thing, because your expression helped me to know I’m not alone in the world and I very much want you to know the same. Thank you.