Love Me

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>In <em>Love Me</em> 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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. <em>Love Me</em> 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.</p>