Grandpa gives granddaughter 2,000 letters for graduation

ATLANTA — A Gwinnett County high school student will receive a present Friday that has been nearly 18 years in the making, thanks to the teenager’s grandfather and his pens.

The moment John Eades saw his wife hold his little granddaughter, he didn’t want the moment to disappear, so he described it in a letter.

The first letter was written the day Victoria was born, and now there are nearly 2,000.

“I don’t know why, but something told me to write her a letter about how I was feeling,” Eades said.

Now that Victoria is almost 18 and will soon be graduating from Buford High School, she’ll get a diploma and the unusual gift full of memories from toddler to teen.

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Eades' granddaughter knows her grandpa wrote the letters to her, but she’s never seen them.

“First crush, first heartbreak, those kinds of things,” Eades said.

Eades told Channel 2's Carol Sbarge that maybe he could give his granddaughter advice about love, faith, integrity and principles of life.

Eades started writing letters for Victoria’s younger sister, who will soon graduate from 8th grade, when she was born as well.

Eades has all the letter in binders with pictures from different phases of their lives on the front.

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