Child why did you come here Where did you find the courage Anastasia is 15 years old, in bed a "broken idiot" A severe chronic illness has got her life on its lap, ready to eat her up and spit out her bones. She has felt the long list of symptoms that come with ME/CFS for over a year now but she did not know their names, that they belonged in a group and that they would not go away. On the day that she is diagnosed and given the sentence of ten years to life, she begins to write this book of letters to a Dear Stranger, the one who can listen to the words that she dare not speak. The Stranger is invited to dive into the depths of an intimate and personal journey of the unfolding inner life of a teenager on the path towards wholeness. The questions, doubts, discoveries and the unraveling of the layers which hide her true self lead her on a healing process beyond recovery. Dear Stranger shows us vulnerability, determination, suffering, inspiration, love, gratitude and an astonishing wisdom. It offers insight into illness and questions deeply what illness really is, what it came to tell and what it means to live, truly live.