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Letters For Lunch
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some childhood memories fade. Others follow us for the rest of our lives.
In Letters for Lunch, Demetri Ramsey looks back on a life shaped by family, friendship, faith, identity, loss, addiction, and the complicated search for a place to belong.
From the warmth of his grandparents' small-town diner to the instability of home, from childhood friendships and first love to the devastating betrayal of a trusted priest, Ramsey tells the story of a boy learning that love and harm do not always arrive as opposites. Sometimes they come from the same people. Sometimes what feels like rescue carries a cost that takes years to understand.
As childhood gives way to adulthood, the wounds left behind begin to surface in unexpected ways-in relationships, in addiction, in the body, and even in memories that refuse to return. Yet amid the painful truths are moments of humor, tenderness, resilience, and the people whose kindness mattered more than they may ever have known.
At its heart, Letters for Lunch is not simply a memoir about surviving what happened.
It is about returning to the boy who lived through it, giving him the words he did not have then, and finally telling the story in his own name.
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