Dear Navalny,
I have separated the paragraphs so you can read the first line and decide if you want to read the whole thing or not. You can skip it or skim it or whatever you choose.
My name is Emily and I’m a dietary server at an assisted living facility in America. I believe I have been searching for you for eight years.
It was back in college in 2013 that I had a professor who was obsessed with Russia. I wanted to give him a book that said ‘To the strongest man in Russia’. However, I believe you are the strongest man in Russia, because that’s what everyone says. Then, five years later, I got interested in Russian culture personally, and I felt this sense that God was looking for a righteous man in Russia that was contemporary and loved America. He was looking for one good Russian to do His Will in politics, like a King David, and he put me on the journey to find this man, so that I could have a shepherd to lead me. Then you got poisoned and everyone kept saying you were the best candidate in Russian politics, so I thought ‘well this must be the one I’ve been looking for.’
The book I wanted to give my professor would suit you very well I think. It’s about my ancestor and his time as a POW in North Vietnam. He and his men were kept in small dark cells with a bucket for relieving themselves and stocks to put their legs in. The stocks were made for smaller adults, so their ankles would swell. They could only talk to each other using morse code, and they had to be quiet. They were barely fed anything and my ancestor schemed to find rotten banana peels to bulk up.
A phrase my ancestor came up with really helps me endure tough times. It was ‘One more minute. Anyone can handle anything for one more minute’.
He also did a lot of crying and yelling to release his emotions, and he did a thousand push ups to release energy. The Geneva convention should have afforded them more amenities, but the leaders of North Vietnam swore that my ancestor and his men had killed civilians, so they kept them in a dire situation to get information and punish them. Three men were killed due to mental illness, because the North Vietnamese didn’t like mental illness. The rest of the men went on to live full lives afterwards.
I know it was Sergeant Calley who killed civilians and Nixon went easy on him, but my ancestor and the rest of the men only killed fighter pilots. They didn’t kill civilians who could have been killers, they killed visible fighters only. When my ancestor got out after being held captive for seven years, his wife had divorced him because she thought he had died. So he had to remarry. He had four sons with his first wife, and four daughters with his second wife.
I think the one thing he learned in his seven years was how to have gratitude, which I believe you are picking up on. He also became more grateful to his nation, even though he was strongly devoted before. My ancestor and the rest of the POW’s were received with appreciation when they got out, even though it wasn’t that way for many of those soldiers. The feelings were mixed, because the people believed we shouldn’t have messed in another nation’s business.
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I‘m not sure why I feel compelled to bear my soul, but I will tell you about my own miracle story if it helps you.
I was born on September 9th 1991 at 11 weeks early. I weighed 1.3 kilograms. I had half the blood in my body, a blood clot in my brain, and I had sucked in Pneumonia from my mother. I also found out that her womb had stopped feeding me. Anyway, they had to put me in the neonatal intensive care unit for 53 days. The doctors told my family that I would never walk or I would have cerebral palsy if I even lived. They had washed their hands of my fate.
But when I got out, I was healthy except for a shunt to drain spinal fluid. I was visited by Dawn Wells for Children’s Miracle Network. She was the actress who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island. I saw her a second time at my town’s festival. When my parents paid for me to bring me home, they only had to pay one dollar, because two charities had contributed to paying the medical bills.
I was also diagnosed with schizophreniform disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and depression in March last year. I hope your hallucinations weren’t about Hell or Satan, because it’s really bad when you have to deal with that. I couldn’t even find encouraging verses to feel protected, so I hope you felt the word of God was on your side. When I was diagnosed, they found the right medication and right dosage in a few weeks. I’ve heard of people waiting decades for the right medication.
I was also paranoid of a ‘Red Dawn‘ happening, even though I haven’t seen the movie, and I only learned about pogroms from a recent article about you. I don’t know if it’s Russian civilians who attack American civilians, but I thought it was coming. I also had auditory hallucinations of the Devil telling me Covid was my fault, because I had a thought about attacking bad guys in Russia with a plague. There’s plague, pestilence, disease, famine, and drought, and I picked plague. Then a few months later, Covid happened. The voices said I should kill myself as a sacrifice to make up for all the lives that were being lost. That is how my depression, anxiety, and schizophreniform disorder expressed themselves.
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On a brighter note, I have a headband, a hair tie, and a mask that all has your picture on it. I wear it for good luck and favor. I also have set up a Facebook group for your fans. One thing I like to do is find music that makes me feel connected to your cause and your heart, so I share those songs on my Facebook group. So far, I have over one hundred and eighty and counting. I also found the SNL clip of Jim Carrey jamming out to ‘What is love?‘ and put it on there.
I really think ‘Everything I do, I do it for you’ really describes your heart for the people. You would die for them, and you walk the wire every moment. You are Robin Hood with his merry men in prison, fighting for your opportunity to turn the tables.
I think Russians like to think of you as the main Musketeer, who I think is D’Artagnan, but it doesn’t resonate with me like Robin Hood.
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Whenever my Gramma would compliment me on something, I would say ‘Well I tried’ and then she would say ‘And you succeed!’ Because she attached so heavily to me as a preemie baby. She prayed so hard for me wanting me to live and be healthy, so now it’s my turn to pray daily and seek help for you.
At the time I wrote this, I was struggling with ‘the man’ at my previous job as a housekeeper. You have your own ‘man’ you’re struggling with, which boosted me immensely. It made me feel like we’re fighting ‘the man’ together, and I absolutely loved that. When I start to lose faith in you, because I don’t understand why you did what you did the way you did, something always pops up to put me back on the straight and narrow. You’re on the right track. And if one source doesn’t pan out the way you had hoped, another source will take it’s place.
My ancestor expected Nixon to get him out, but I believe it was Gerald Ford who got him out, and my ancestor was a strict democrat.
You thought Trump would help you, but it was really Biden who stood up for you. I expect to see you out with barely a scratch on you, because I know how it’s done. So stick to your guns, because we’re all rooting for you, and you are in line with Faith.
But this is already happening for you, so you are experiencing miracles every day.
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By the way, would it be possible for us to get our adopted children out of Russia? We have paid for them and spent time with them, and they are growing up and out of the system and they need us. Many of them have disabilities, and they need their parents. We don’t expect to start looking for kids to adopt in Russia, we have kids that we have paid for and wanted to bring home before that law was changed. So can you get our kids home? The parents keep sending letters to your president and he won’t respond.
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Another thing I want to tell you about is the meaning of your name. I like to ‘translate’ Russian names to see what they mean, and yours is amazing. Your name means ‘defender of mankind with the sunrise either in bulk, on an axle, or on an axis’. That is really powerful imagery to me. So I would wake up at six am to go to work, and I would see the sun shining on my way there, and I would say ‘good morning, sunshine!’ to greet you. So if you lose faith in yourself, you still have your name to lean on.
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I hope you’ve seen National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase. It’s a classic, and there’s something funny nearly every moment. I also hope you’ve seen The Producers. It’s about producers who produce a play that makes fun of Hitler. I also hope you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It’s about a high school kid who pretends to be sick so he can go to Chicago with his friends. It was made in the eighties. If you’ve seen it, I hope the world reacts to you like they do to Ferris. ‘Save Ferris’. Whenever Rick and Morty is on TV I think of you. I feel like you just love science so much for some reason. Do you like the Big Bang Theory?
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There is a picture of me and my dog Ellie. She lays down like a Corgi with her back legs out. I call it chicken legs. There’s also a picture of me wearing the Navalny gear. There is also a picture of Deadpool showing you some love, doing the exact same thing you did, because you’re Deadpool. You remind me of him, because you can make it through anything. I included the photo of Dumbo with his mom because your horoscope says you need hugs and cuddles, so I’m sending hugs and cuddles your way. It also says you are very kind and you are dethroning Satan.
The photo of the beast is meant to encourage you. The beast had to go through a transformation to be worthy of his crown, taking away Gaston’s authority. Gaston loved parading around with his trophies and sitting in his large, well decorated lodge, and all the women drooled over him. I see you becoming more and more worthy with each article that comes out. You are blooming.
I wish I could end this with a Bible concept, but I can’t think of any that really do you justice. So I will say that God can really do amazing miracles.
I had been on medication for my schizophreniform disorder for over a year before I was able to afford it with insurance. I had to be on samples until then. But I fortunately found my new job that had great insurance and it brought the medication down from 1900 dollars a month to 45 a month. So anyway, I’m banking on real miracles for you. I’m trying to get you in my stewardship so my miracles can shed on you.
You are magnificent, sunshine! I’m so proud of you!
