Michigan dad writes letters to hundreds of strangers who need father figures

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By Kyle Melnick

The Washington Post

On a whim, Rosie Paulik posted on TikTok about her father, who had recently gotten a PhD and was “wondering what to do next.”

“He loves writing letters more than most people love their kids,” she wrote in a caption on her video, explaining that he has written her a letter every day, through “college, camp, adulthood.”

“Would you want a letter from my dad?” Paulik asked. “Or know someone who could use a little kindness from a retired professor with a killer signature and a fountain pen?”

Paulik expected a few people to respond. Instead, hundreds did.

“My dad is so excited,” Paulik said of her father, Buz Ecker, 67.

Ecker and other dads Paulik has recruited have since spent hours writing to strangers loo