From Dan Dasilva
Hey Mike,
I just wanted to write you to tell you how much your music means to me, and how much it has touched me. Idk if u will even read this, but it'll feel good to get it out. When I was 19 my mother passed after a long battle with lung disease, I watched her deteriorate for 4years prior to her passing. She passed March 14. 2003. Ten days later Meteora came out, I listened to that album forever, it helped me in ways no one else could. Ultimately I went down a wrong, hard, dark path and I numbed myself with drugs and alcohol for the next ten years trying to cope with my lose. Fast forward to when I now have my children and have cleaned up my act so to say. Now I am grieving all over again because I never did it properly the first time, and it's harder now then it ever was then. Having 2 daughters and looking at them and seeing my mother, breaks my heart all over again. Then I found Post Traumatic, my favorite album ever, and I mean ever. It's like the tracks we're almost partially written for me. That album has gotten me through some very hard times and I can't thank you enough for that. All in all your music has guided me through half my life and it's amazing. So thank you man, thank you from the bottom of my soul for what you do, cuz without your music I'm not sure where I would even be right now.
You Fan, Dan Dasilva
