Page 1 - Story Book for Bob Seger

Dear Cole, December, 2021

I regretted sending you a Facebook message recently. Too late, I wondered what it must be like to ‘live in the shadows’ as Bob
Seger’s son. I’m sure people try to get to your dad through your connection, without ever considering YOU as your own person.
So, I took time to learn more about Christopher Cole Seger— the individual and the man. (My regret in sending you that lame-O
note was justified). You’re not just ‘an extension of Bob Seger’— YOU are Cole Seger—making your own way and ‘quietly taking
over the world’. There is no doubt you will leave an enduring impact in your own right!

Your New Radio Media interview on The Drop In with Garold Vallie was both enlightening and moving. The down to earth
sincerity and humility you conveyed was refreshing. I appreciate your commitment to becoming and staying clean and sober, as
well as your dedication to following your passion as a filmmaker. The comments about having respect for everyone regardless
of where they came from and remembering the lessons you have learned along the way encouraged me. Discovering you’re a
writer created an urgency to share my story concisely, without appearing trite or cliché. Wish me luck!

Here’s part of my saga: On a lovely spring morning in 2019, I was visited by the DNR. Someone in the neighborhood had
reported that “I was stealing rocks and putting them in the creek to divert the current”! I asked the officer if she would like to
see antique photographs of those same rocks, and we both laughed. She asked what I was doing with my place, so I told her
about a photo album I created for your dad that someone promised to hand deliver. Her reply: “I grew up next door to them in
Bloomfield Hills. My mom still lives there. When you send it, tell Cole and Sam that Brandy Collins from home says, ‘Hi’! You’ll
find her picture within the pages.

Beginning September 23rd, I was extremely ill with The ‘Rona’ for 5 weeks, quite literally dreaming of ways to somehow FINALLY
get this package delivered, since my friend’s offer to get it to your dad fell through. I awoke believing the Brandy Collins
episode happened for a reason, so I’m hoping you are my messenger in this situation. Last week, I reached out to a mutual
friend of ours, (RD from Q-100 and NRM Streamcast), sadly unaware he passed away 2 years ago. I wrote to RD’s father Buzz to
express my condolence and afterward found out he is also at NRM. A digital version of the ‘story book’, was shared with him
and Sheryl Mosolgo-Coyne from Q-100. After receiving his copy, Buzz told me he would get this into your hands and for that
I’m eternally grateful! God works in mysterious ways, using all things for good!

When you regard the contents, all of my reasons for reaching out to you will become obvious, so I won’t take time to reiterate.
There are no stipulations or expectations, nothing in return— I’m just needing to see this through to the end. Thank you from
the bottom of my heart!

Your cousin (from your Grandma Charlotte’s side of the family)~
Zuesha (PS...Are you REALLY color blind??)