The Letter Writer Who Walked Through the Door

For eleven years, Margaret Chen wrote letters to her sponsored child, Amara, in a small village outside Kigali, Rwanda. She sent photographs, birthday cards, handwritten notes on yellow legal paper. Amara pinned every one to the wall above her bed. She knew Margaret's handwriting the way you know a familiar voice — every loop, every slant. She could trace the letters with her finger and feel something like love.…