High school student spreads kindness with handwritten letters for thousands of classmates

By Tamara Vaifanua, KSL

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    RIVERTON, Utah (KSTU) — A student at Riverton High School decided to write thousands of letters to every student at his school, all in an effort to be kind.

Student Body President Seth Christensen said he wanted to make a personal effort to connect with his classmates in a meaningful way. He said some days he would get up at 3 in the morning just to get started handwriting the letters, then deliver whatever he had written that day at school.

“I want people to be able to know that they are loved,” he said. “I hope that’s what they get from those letters — that they are worth the time to have someone write a letter for them.”

In all, Christensen said he wrote 2,336 letters.

The school’s attendance office even helped hand out the letters, since there were so many.

Christensen said it was worth it just to make others feel loved.

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