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All There Is with Anderson Cooper · Mikaela Shiffrin On the ‘Maze’ of Grief For Her Dad · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

I was recently sent a bunch of letters my father, Wyatt Cooper, wrote to a friend of his.

The man he sent them to, Jack McLarty, died years ago, but he'd asked someone to make sure the letters got to me.

And a couple months ago, they finally did.

I just read them today.

I have lots of photos of my dad from his childhood in Mississippi, his life in Hollywood as an actor and screenwriter, and his life in New York with my mom and brother and me.

But in these letters, he feels alive to me in a way he doesn't in the photos.

Reading his words, I can hear his inner voice, his humor, his insecurities, his humanness.

This is the last letter he sent to Jack, postmarked December 22nd, 1977.

He sent it from the hospital a few weeks after he'd had several heart attacks.

It had her family Christmas card in it and a brief note confirming he'd meet Jack and his wife for a coffee in a month's time.

He wrote, It's nice to have a date that far ahead.

It makes one feel one couldn't possibly die and leave an unfulfilled engagement.

I think he was only half joking.

On the back of the envelope, after he'd sealed it, he wrote three more words, I'm holding on.

Fourteen days later, my dad was dead.

I'm still learning new things about him, discovering him in new ways.

And when I hold my two little boys' hands, and I hear their laughter,

and see them look at me the way I once looked at him, I feel my dad once again alive in a way inside me.

So on this Father's Day, that is what I'm celebrating for the first time.

That feeling, that love passed from a father to his son over and over, generation after generation, through time and space and through love, always and forever.

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