On a summer day in 2013, Kelly Rugsdon left a blank notebook at a Denver bus stop with a simple request: Tell me your story. What follows is an evocative, raw, and deeply human tapestry of the Mile High City.

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Based on the original idea of Jaclyn to create real journals to pass around, Dear Denver is a novel composed of fragments - anonymous confessions, family recipes and quiet heartbreaks - that prove no one is truly a stranger if you take the time to read between the lines.