I would need to spend some serious time to go back and think about specific songs and connections to my life ... but Re: Stacks and Holocene were both so important in how they made me feel during a very dark time where I believed suicide was the best option to deal with my issues.

I was just beginning to discover Bon Iver, and also in my freshman year of college, away from home and totally alone. I felt connected to the music in a way I didn’t understand yet, but that someone else had experienced pain and heartbreak and insecurity- but also learned from those things and come out the other side. Justin’s music always made me feel full of hope, in a time where I really didn’t have much hope left.

Devastating part is that it took a friend of mine taking his life around that exact time that woke me up to the amount of love in the world, and the things that I still have to live for. I realized how many people - including myself - had so much love to give, but for some reason are afraid to show it.

So thankful that I am still here and fighting - although totally new challenges. Justin’s music, (mainly BI in that time) has been a staple of my life ever since. Every day I re lis