Jodi's Lovely Letters


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"To you, this is a little note to remind you how absolutely incredible

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"you are on the days that you forget."

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"You are strong, so loved and in the safest hands."

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"Try and believe in that wonder of yours.

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"It's an asset to so many peoples lives."

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-Thinking of you...

-Jodi.

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Jodi Ann Bickley changes lives by doing something very simple,

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but very unusual -

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writing letters to complete strangers.

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And she's not going to stop until she's written a million.

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Yeah, it seems like a lot, but I've got a lifetime.

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I've never met Jodi,

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but then most of the people that she writes to have

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never met her either.

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But with letters just like this one she's changing

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people's lives all over the world.

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I wish that she realised how much of an impact she had on people's lives.

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She has no idea who we are.

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And she still takes time out of her days saying, "You know what,

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"this person needs motivation? I'm going to do it for him."

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So just what is it that motivates somebody to write a million letters

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to people she's never met before?

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You just didn't want Daddy to feed you!

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We all have our different ways of getting things across and I think

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that everybody should know that they are enough and that they're loved.

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A few years ago, Jodi set up a project which she called

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One Million Lovely Letters. On her website she's written,

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"So this is a call-out to every other person on the planet.

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"I'm going to write you a letter,

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"a letter just to make the day a bit better,

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"or to remind you of the amazing stuff about you

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"that you've forgotten, because we all forget once in a while."

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So, basically, it's a website where people can go

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if they need a bit of a lift.

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When Jodi set up the website from her small front room in a south

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Birmingham suburb,

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she couldn't have imagined the response she'd receive from people

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across the world. But, then, letters can be wonderful things.

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Never underestimate the power of a letter.

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They really can change your life.

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And I'm living proof of that.

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It was a letter written not to me but about me.

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A lady in the congregation at Bangor Cathedral where I was a chorister

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loved my voice, was always nagging my mum and dad to record it.

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They never did anything about it. So without us knowing,

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she wrote to a local recording company saying,

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"Please record his voice.

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"I am not a relative of his and there's no connection other than

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"I have this great desire to have a record of his voice."

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And without Hefina Orwig Evans, I wouldn't have enjoyed the career

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I have today.

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32 albums, thanks to her.

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Amazing.

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Thank you very much.

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So letters really can change lives, even in this

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digital age.

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And Jodi's believed in the power of the written word all her life.

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KNOCK AT DOOR

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Hi, how are you?

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-I'm all right.

-Nice to see you.

-Thanks for coming out.

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-Thank you very much.

-This is Cece.

-Hello, Cece.

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-Why letters, though?

-It's always been letters.

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When I was little, it was my mum's way of helping us to deal

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with our grief over us losing our nan.

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I lost my nanny when I was five.

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And she sat me and my brother down

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and we wrote little letters to heaven.

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My mum was like, "This is going to be...

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"It's a very special letter cos you'll only be able to write this

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"one letter to Nanny," and that was our way of dealing with grief.

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Jodi started her One Million Lovely Letters project in 2013.

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But in a way, spreading positive messages is something she's been

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-doing her whole life.

-I've always written letters.

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It's always just been a thing.

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I've always left notes places, I've left notes on buses,

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I've left notes down the side of chairs.

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It's just the whole magic of finding them.

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I always think if I found it, I'd be so happy.

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And some people are going to have found them and been like,

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"What is this?" But I know that certain people have found them

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and thought they were wonderful so it's kind of...

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It's just always been something I've done.

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Jodi's desire to help people is all the more remarkable

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given she's hardly had a straightforward life herself.

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I think when I first, erm...

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..tried to hurt myself I think I was 17?

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No, 18.

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I was 18.

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Yeah.

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There was, like, a couple of times where I'd tried to kill myself

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and... It's just there was nowhere to go from that.

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And, yeah, so, since then I've kind of battled depression.

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It's your worst enemy living inside your head,

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telling you that

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you're a failure and you're unworthy and you don't deserve to be here and

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you're a fraud and something's going to happen

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so don't take anything, anything that good happens,

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you don't deserve it so be wary because it'll come and get you.

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It's that, constantly.

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And it's waking up with it.

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And it's going to sleep with it.

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And it's dreaming with it.

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Despite these challenges, Jodi has found ways to enjoy life.

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But whilst at a music festival on the Isle of Wight in 2011,

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when she was 23, she was bitten by a tick, which led to encephalitis,

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a potentially fatal brain disease.

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I got home and basically was like a baby.

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I couldn't pick things up. I couldn't

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really walk properly. I had to have a Zimmer frame.

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I... Yeah, it was... It was a lot.

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I couldn't write.

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So, yeah. And then, after that all happened,

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the ME kicked in and then I was bedbound for a year and a half.

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ME is a disorder of the nervous system that can lead

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to extreme fatigue and discomfort as well as cognitive problems.

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Unsurprisingly, it all got too much for Jodi.

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I just didn't want to be here.

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I didn't want to be in my skin. I didn't want to be, like,

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housed with this hatred for myself and who I was any more.

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So I counted all my tablets out and

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just started preparing to kill myself, really.

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But fate intervened.

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In that dark moment,

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an app she had on her phone to entertain her flashed

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with a silly message that made her laugh.

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It was a simple thing, a brief distraction,

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but it was what she needed.

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-SHE LAUGHS

-So that kind of broke me out

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of my darkness for a second,

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and I know it's not that easy for everybody but in that moment

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that's what I needed.

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And that's when I started thinking about, "OK, so that's my first step.

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"I'm laughing. Now what can I do?"

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Jodi felt she'd been given another chance and her instinctive reaction

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was to help others.

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And that's when I set up a little website and I was like,

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"I'm going to write letters. I've always written letters."

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One Million Lovely Letters was the result.

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But what happened next was even more surprising.

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My inbox started filling up and overnight I got 200 e-mails

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and people were visiting the website from all over the world,

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and from that moment, I've written

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4,000 letters and that was four...

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Four years ago, on February the third.

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So from that moment, it's been 4,000 letters.

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So, yeah.

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That's what happened.

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Jodi doesn't charge a penny for her letters.

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There are plenty more to go until she gets to a million, of course,

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but just imagine writing 4,000.

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And they're not just quick notes.

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Each one is lovingly worded and personalised.

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And e-mails are still coming in daily.

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She currently has more than 8,000

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requests in her inbox from around the globe.

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Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot.

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I'd find that totally overwhelming, I really would.

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Some days, yeah. Some days.

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It really depends on where my... Like, where my mind's at.

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We'll get miscarriage and divorce and cancer and depression, overdose.

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And that's within the first line of

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the e-mail that just comes up in your inbox.

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So it's not the jolliest of places.

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There was one recently that, even now, it just...

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It's with me and I can't shake it.

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It was from a couple in Los Angeles and she was pregnant with her first

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baby and they were so

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excited and they went for an ultrasound.

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And the nurse turned to her and held her hand and said

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"There's no heartbeat."

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And she was six months pregnant at the time.

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And she wrote to me wanting me to tell her it was going to be OK.

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And you can't.

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Where do you start with something like that?

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You start with how in awe you are of this person's strength.

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"To Ashley.

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"I can't for a second imagine the

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"pain you and your husband are going through.

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"All I know is that to go through such a tragic time would

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"have taken and continue to take the strength of the largest army.

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"I am in absolute awe of your

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"strength and love for one another that has kept you going.

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"You are incredible individuals and the most powerful of teams,

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"and it's a privilege to be able to

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"write to you and remind you of that."

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"An incredible daughter, sister, friend..."

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So what does it feel like to get a letter from Jodi?

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Well, Jodi wrote to Scarlet a couple of years ago

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when she was in real need of help.

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I was living with a family member

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and we didn't really have the best relationship.

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How low did you get? How bad did you feel?

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So if you can imagine being at the very bottom and then go a little bit

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lower than that, that's probably where I was.

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-Really?

-Yeah.

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"To Scarlet.

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"This letter is to remind you how amazing you are..."

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What would you like to say to Jodi?

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Just...

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I just wish that she realised how much of an impact she had on

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people's lives, for definite.

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And the different that she made to mine.

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Just having that

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glimmer of hope from somebody, it

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makes so much difference and I just...

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I don't think she realises that at all.

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I really don't think she realises.

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Hello, my name's Jodi Ann Bickley

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and I run the project One Million Lovely Letters.

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On the tenth of April, my first-ever exhibition opens and it's

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going to run for a whole week,

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and it's going to be based on

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writing a letter to your younger self and

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writing a letter for somebody that you just feel would need it.

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For most people, writing thousands

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of letters would be more than enough to take on.

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But as I'm beginning to realise, Jodi isn't like most people.

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I've always wanted to put on an

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exhibition since the project started.

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I've always had an exhibition in mind.

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I'm not really an artist and you always think with exhibitions that

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it's something artists do.

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But I guess the letters are kind of...

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They've taken their own little art form now.

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Jodi won't be filling the exhibition with letters she's written.

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She's appealing online to people around the world to send her letters

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they've written to display.

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If you have a minute please get your pens out, get your glitter out,

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get your sequins and sparkles out and just write me a lovely letter.

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It can either be to you at an age

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when you feel you could have done with

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the letter, a little bit of hindsight or wisdom,

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or it can be for somebody to find at the exhibition.

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Just a letter to remind somebody how

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wonderful they are on the days they forget.

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That would be absolutely amazing.

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Jodi wants letters from all over the world for the exhibition,

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and a great opportunity to gather some has presented itself.

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Yeah, I'm about to go to South Africa

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and leave this one for ten days,

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which is going to be very difficult.

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Although I am looking forward to the sleep, I must admit.

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Invited by a British charity,

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Jodi's been asked to run some workshops for vulnerable young South

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Africans in a rural township.

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The kids here have experienced

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everything from domestic and sexual abuse

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to racial and gang-related violence.

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So we've been travelling for over 24 hours now,

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but we are in South Africa.

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I'm nervous about...

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I want to do my best,

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I want to bring some sparkle and wonderfulness to their lives because

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these young people have been through some really difficult things.

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And there's part of me that's just like,

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"Who am I to just run up and say, 'Come and do this for me?'"

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I just feel... I just want to just get a connection for them,

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if I give a little bit of me to them,

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they'll want to give a little bit of their story back to me.

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Making their voices heard.

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Jodi's asking the young people here to write letters that she can take

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back to the UK for her exhibition.

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What about you two, what are you writing to younger you?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm so looking forward to reading them all.

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Thank you so much, like, thank you so much for doing this.

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Yes, she has that passion.

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She's an inspirator, she has that passion...

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Yeah.

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I think asking somebody to write a letter sometimes is a bit daunting.

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A lot of these young people, they communicate through art.

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In return for the letters these children write,

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Jodi's brought over letters written by Birmingham schoolchildren,

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as presents for the South African kids.

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When I put the letters up in the beginning,

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I don't think they realised that the

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letters that I'd left in the centre were for them.

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So they were looking at them like, "Oh, this is beautiful" -

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but I don't think that they thought that they were for them.

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And when they realised that,

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they were so excited.

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I feel blessed. I feel like I'm special, you know?

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She just came all the way just to meet me here. I mean...

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I don't even have words to describe the feeling, man.

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It seems Jodi and her letters have

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made the connection she was hoping for.

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I'm getting really upset.

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I think it's just all of it, it's all

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really overwhelming, and

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just makes it kind of all worthwhile, a little bit.

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And that sounds really stupid and privileged, but it's not.

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It just makes it, erm...

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I feel very lucky to be here at the minute. I feel very, very lucky.

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I would really... I could really use

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going home and giving my baby a cuddle at the minute.

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I think seeing all the kids today,

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especially the little one, has just made me realise how, erm...

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How good

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we've got it and how we don't realise.

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And we think we've got it so crappy sometimes - "crap", sorry,

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rubbish sometimes - and we haven't.

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And they're so happy.

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And I feel like someone's just smacked me over the head and said,

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"Get over yourself a little bit," because, erm...

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Yeah, they're incredible, and anybody could learn stuff from them.

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The thing is, though, people from all over the world - me included -

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are learning a lot from Jodi.

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And her letters are having a lasting impact on people's lives.

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-Hi.

-Hey, is that Seb?

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Yes, it's me. How are you?

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Hey! Good to talk to you.

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Where are you today?

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I'm at home, actually, in Montreal, Canada.

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Sebastian reached out to Jodi a few years ago.

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After years of unfulfilling jobs, he'd gone back to college.

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But it was a struggle.

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Halfway through the course, he'd run out of money.

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He wasn't socialising,

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and he was questioning whether he'd make it to graduation.

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He was in a bad way.

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I got very, very curious,

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said, "Why's this coming up when

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"I'm googling for help for depression...?"

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So, of course, clicked on it,

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started reading through the whole text and realised,

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"Oh, look at that, this is very interesting."

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Sebastian and Scarlett both came

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into contact with Jodi at key moments in

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their lives, when they needed help.

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And that's exactly what Jodi had in mind when she set up the project.

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Take me back to that morning when it dropped through your letterbox.

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I remember clearly saying, "Are you kidding me?"

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I actually have the letter to read aloud.

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"To Sebastian. Getting through each day with depression is a victory.

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"You are winning the fight, Sebastian."

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And when I did receive it, it blew my mind.

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"It's a tug-of-war. And sometimes you feel like depression has the

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"upper hand, but it never has control.

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"Depression is not going to win.

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"Because you won't let it.

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How often do you turn to that letter?

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It's stuck on my computer.

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So now, anything else that happens to me,

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that I feel like I might be giving up,

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I just look at that little letter

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there and I'm like, "I can't give up. What would Jodi do?"

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It's incredible seeing the impact Jodi and her letters

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have had on people's lives.

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And through the exhibition, she's

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hoping to reach a whole new audience.

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So I've just picked up some more letters for my exhibition.

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I've got one from Nottingham. I've got one from Northern Ireland.

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One from Spain, and one from

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somewhere I don't know yet but I'm really,

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really excited to find out.

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Yep! More letters.

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When people just send me letters and things like this,

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I just think it's amazing.

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I just think it's really wonderful.

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But where are all these wonderful letters going to go?

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So everybody will be coming in here.

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And this...

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-What a great space!

-I know!

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This is my room.

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I feel I want to dance as well!

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This will be my room.

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Wow. Hey, it's big, though.

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Isn't it? Terrifying.

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Yeah. You're going to need a lot of letters.

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Aren't I? I was just thinking that.

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In my head, I thought I knew how many.

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-Yeah.

-But... Maybe more!

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But whilst there's lots to be excited about,

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Jodi's depression and anxiety are never far away.

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Well... I wake up panicked, like, generally, in life.

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Hiya. It's just Jodi, the girl that does One Million Lovely Letters.

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It was just a little question...

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'It feels like being

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'in a tunnel, on your own

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'with nothing at the end of it.

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'Like, just a darkness.'

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See you later. Bye.

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Oh, phone calls make me feel sick.

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'Doesn't matter how many people told me that I am the most...

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'Lovely, wonderful thing to come since sliced bread or whatever

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'- doesn't matter, because I'm in this tunnel, I can't hear anything.'

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It's not just the depression and anxiety.

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In all honesty, the ME at the moment isn't so great.

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The doctors have referred me back to my ME doctor,

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and I've got so many referrals going on at the minute,

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it's a bit ridiculous, but when I...

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Whenever I'm in a point where my ME is getting bad, or I'm in panic,

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I tend to just go up a notch and overwork myself!

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She's not kidding. But with an exhibition to set up,

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Jodi just has to get on with it.

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I'm going to get there, and I'm

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going to have forgotten something very key.

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Luckily, husband Sam's there to lend a hand.

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Done.

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But there's someone who feels a

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bit left out.

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You haven't got thumbs, you're no use to me.

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See you in a bit!

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With everything packed, it's off to the gallery in central Birmingham.

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And it's the start of her dream.

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There's lots to do, but with the help of a few friends and family,

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it starts to take shape.

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And slowly but surely, Jodi begins to work her magic on the room.

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And the media's started to notice, too.

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TV and radio have come calling to

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find out all about the girl who writes letters.

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Good morning. Yes, some very

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interesting ideas from yourselves here.

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And joining me now is Jodi Ann Bickley from Birmingham.

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I can't wait to see it for myself.

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But before I get there, I'm going to

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get my pen out and write Jodi a letter, too.

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I've no idea when I last wrote a letter.

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It's amazing how it focuses the mind in a way of sending a text or an

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e-mail doesn't.

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And it's my chance to tell her what I think of her and her

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One Million Lovely Letters project.

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Wow!

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Hey, it looks amazing.

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Doesn't it look good?

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How are you?

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These are all the teenagers I met in South Africa.

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It is almost feels like your room back in your house,

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but just a lot bigger.

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I know! When people come in later I'll probably be, like...

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But now, on my own, I'm all right, I'm OK.

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This is my tranquil place.

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And, in the midst of that tranquil

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place is one letter that caught my eye -

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a letter Jodi's written to her younger self.

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At 16, I didn't really like myself very much.

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-You said that to me before.

-Yeah, I

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don't think my 28-year-old self does.

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So I think I needed to go back to my 16-year-old self and say,

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"Come on, we need to kick this now."

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But I never understand, you see.

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Even last time, I left you and I was on the train,

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and you said that to me in your house,

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that even you now don't like who you are sometimes.

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-Yeah.

-But how is that possible?

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Because you make so many people happy.

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It doesn't matter, does it?

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Like, people go, "You're so nice, you're so wonderful."

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But when you go to bed at night and the negatives go in your head,

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everyone does it. You have an interior bully that's just, like,

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"You're rubbish, you're this, you're that."

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"To Jodi, aged 16.

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"Firstly, I need to let you know how enough you are, exactly as you are.

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"Life is going to be full of some absolutely amazing things,

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"but also some really awful things that right now you couldn't imagine

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"getting through. But you do.

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"Please be kinder to yourself.

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"Lots of love, Jodi, aged 28."

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Do you think this exhibition has helped you with your health, then?

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With my mental health, yes, because it's made me feel

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like I've achieved something.

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I'm not saying... I'm not quite proud of myself yet,

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but maybe when people walk in tonight and they see it,

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I just want them to feel like I feel when I'm writing the letters.

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It's party time at the gallery,

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and it's lovely seeing how excited Jodi is to share a little bit of her

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world with everyone.

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So please just have some fun and just enjoy yourselves.

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Yeah, thank you so, so much for coming.

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She said she wanted people to feel like she does when she's writing

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letters. And from the looks on

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people's faces, I think she's achieved that.

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Really makes me feel like I should

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have thought that when I was younger.

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Seems to be a really nice vibe about it all.

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But there always is with Jodi.

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That's the kind of person she is, really.

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Kind of fills me with a certain positivity.

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Just incredible, really. I think

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there's a shortage of people caring for other people. It's really nice.

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And I think you can't help, reading them, you can't help but smile.

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There have been smiles all round.

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Before it ends, I've got a couple of surprises up my sleeve for Jodie.

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This is Scarlet.

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Scarlet's finally going to have a

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chance to tell Jodie what a difference she's made.

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And, to do that, she's written a letter of her own.

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"To lovely Jodi, a few years ago I was the saddest

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"kitten in the whole world and was pretty close to giving up.

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"Your letter was like sunshine rays pushing through the

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"clouds. I cried and cried at the thought that somebody believed in me

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"and thought I was wonderful."

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And although he couldn't come all the way over from Canada,

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Jodi's about to see Seb for the first time.

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-Do you want to put your headphones on?

-Yeah, I do.

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OK, here we go.

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This is your friendly neighbourhood French-Canadian.

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I just wanted to say thanks for the letter that you sent me.

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It really changed my perspective on a lot of things and it boosted my

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confidence. And I really, really needed that.

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So congratulations about your exhibit.

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I hope everything goes well and

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congratulations again on everything, and what you're doing is amazing.

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Keep it up.

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As if you've done that!

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-That's great, isn't it?

-That's amazing.

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He also said some really lovely things about what your letter meant

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to him, how it helped him.

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Why are you trying to break me?

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-What is this?

-I'm not trying to break you.

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-It isn't that lovely?

-That's amazing.

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It's so nice to put a face to him as well.

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A thumbs up from Canada.

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It takes a lot to write to people that you don't know

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and spend your time...

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..making people happy.

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Please don't get upset.

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And I don't think that you realise how amazing you are.

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She doesn't realise.

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No, she doesn't. And how you help people.

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I don't think

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you realise the enormity of it, do you?

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I've written you a little letter.

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It's a really little letter.

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I'm not very good at writing letters. Not like you.

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Thank you so much.

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And my writing is terrible, so you might not be able to read it.

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-Can I read it?

-Yeah. You might not be able to.

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-This is my best writing as well, OK?

-OK.

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"Dear Jodi, what an honour it's been spending time with you.

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"I have never met someone who has

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"such a positive impact on so many people.

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"Your light certainly shines bright.

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"Keep doing what you're doing and

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"all the very best with your exhibition.

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"I'm sure it'll be a huge success.

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"I will be thinking of you.

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"With love and positive vibes, Aled."

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You sweetheart.

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Takes one to know one.

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-Thank you so much.

-Well done.

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I mean what I say. You're awesome.

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Thank you. I'm going to go and put that on my wall.

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I'm just going to start collecting your letters.

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Is my letter going to be on your wall?

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-Yay!

-Yes, it will be.

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From her small front room in Birmingham,

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Jodi's lovely letters have been travelling far and wide,

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putting smiles on faces all over the world,

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helping people when they need a lift.

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Who knows if Jodi will ever write her million letters?

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But, in a way, it doesn't really matter because she's already changed

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so many people's lives, even her own.

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She's a really special person.

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OK. See you.

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