"Just before her sixth birthday, Elena Desserich (right) was diagnosed with brain cancer and given 135 days to live. She lived 255 days, passing away in 2007. After her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith, found hundreds of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in backpacks…." - AJ Kohn from Bookmarklet

Oh man ... this is just crazy heart-breaking. - AJ Kohn

Oh wow. This took my breath away. - joey

Wow that is seriously one of the most thoughtful and heart breaking stories I have ever heard. - Nicholas Kreidberg

That is so cool, but must also have been so painful. - Spidra Webster

joey: Me too, literally. - Nicholas Kreidberg

Oh goodness... *cries* - Mellissa Claus

Wow... that's cute and incredibly heavy all at the same time. - SAM

It is so sad and heartwarming at the same time. Can't fathom what she must have gone through doing this and what her parents are going through finding the notes. - jamar78

ohhhh! girls are sensitive - ffcode

how her parents could come to terms with this; don't know what this feeling is called - ffcode

It's fake. 255 days later they find all this stuff? I call bullshit. And using your dead kid to sell books is pretty low. - KapitanObvious

It's a book to raise funds for a non-profit org. dedicated to fighting pediatric brain cancer. It's not as if they're taking the funds and vacationing in Hawaii. - pea

Still sounds fake. Too many holes. Sorry. - KapitanObvious

Story breaks my heart but as others have pointed out on other sites, it does seem a little fishy that nothing was noticed for a whole 255 days later. - Andrew Trinh

I would imagine that for the 255 days the little girl lived, her parents were totally focused on giving her quality of life, not really noticing much of anything else. After she's gone, part of the recovery process for the parents is to re-organise the home, whereupon they start to discover these things. Or perhaps they found one note in a semi-obvious place and decided to investigate. I remember when I was a kid, I was REALLY good at hiding things. And, KapitanObvious, even if it IS fake, they are not profiting personally from the sale of the book - the proceeds are going to cancer charity. Man, I thought *I* was cynical. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Aww that is so sweet. Poor girl had to go soon :( - AJ Batac

wow! - Loc

even if it is fake i want to live in that virtual moment and yeah there are little girls this sensitive - ffcode