The Letter Bruce Springsteen Wrote a Dying Fan — Her Husband Read It at Her Funeral

Dorothy Hale had been a Bruce Springsteen fan for 26 years. When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she did one thing she had never done before — she wrote him a letter. She didn't ask for anything. She just wanted him to know what the music had been worth. Springsteen wrote back. Four pages, by hand. The letter arrived three days after Dorothy died. Her husband found it in the mailbox in his bathrobe and didn't open it for two hours. At her funeral, her daughter stood up and read all four pages to 112 people. The church went completely silent.