I taped a US national TV segment today for Inside Edition. If you live in the US, check it out on Feb 10th, 2015 after the evening news.
Kayla Mueller’s Letter to Her Family
After news of her death was confirmed, Ms. Mueller’s family released a copy of an unpublished letter that she wrote to her loved ones in the spring of 2014, while held hostage by Islamic State militants. See this link for the transcript of the letter.
What do you see in her handwriting?
Depression? High-self esteem? Bravery? Intelligence?
kayla-muellers-letter-from-captivity (Click to read and see in PDF format)
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I have become very rusty, haven’t done this for a long time…but would be careful to jump to conclusions too quickly. Noticeable are: no margins / many words on a line / small size / lined paper / vacillating slant/ legibility/ MZ and LZ intermingling. The writing would have to be rendered on limited space, it seems – as only the last greeting (All my…) is larger in size than the rest of the writing. Allow me to guess, without lengthy explanations: High intelligence / ambivalence about future (!) / clear communicator, not afraid to confront / independent spirit / occasional depression but otherwise well-controlled. It is better not to read the printed version first; otherwise an answer to the questions above might become too biased in one form or another. There’s lots of other stuff, of course. Poor girl!