The Letter That Arrived Before She Was Born

In 2019, a woman named Clara Mendes from Porto, Portugal, discovered a sealed envelope tucked inside her late grandmother's Bible. The letter, written in her grandmother's careful handwriting and dated three years before Clara was born, read: "To my granddaughter — I have already chosen your name. I have already prayed over your life. I have already set aside my mother's ring for your hand.…