Love Letters to the DeadIt begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain he died young, and so did Laurel's sister May so maybe he'll understand a bit of what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earhart it's like she can't stop. And she'd certainly never dream of handing them in to her teacher. She writes about