 According to social media analysts the letter reached more or less every Twitter user in Sweden.The original text was translated into more than 20 languages, and a version of the text was published by the New York Times in April 2013.In 2017, Khemiri's short story ""Så som du hade berättat det för mig (ungefär) om vi hade lärt känna varandra innan du dog" ("As You Would Have Told It to Me (Sort Of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died")" was published by the New Yorker.