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I met someone who felt the same way, but I remember him more for being strong enough to change. From him I learned that people are more than their mistakes.


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Many years ago, an older man that I trusted had inappropriate sexual contact with me. Twelve years of therapy and a suicide attempt later, and I still live with it every day.

A big part of me will forever be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to me.



























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1. Women do not usually write novels of the type favoured by men but men are known to write novels of the type favoured by women. Some people find this odd.

2. I like to read novels in which the heroine has a costume rustling discreetly over her breasts, or discreet breasts rustling under her costume; in any case, there must be a costume, some breasts, some rustling, and, over all discretion. Discretion over all, like a fog, a miasma through which the outlines of things appear only vaguely. A glimpse of pink through the gloom, the sound of breathing, satin slithering to the floor, revealing what? Never mind, I say. Never never mind.

3. Men favour heroes who are tough and hard: tough with men, and hard with women. Sometimes the hero goes soft on a woman but this is always a mistake. Women do not favour heroines who are tough and hard. Instead they have to be tough and soft. This leads to linguistic difficulties. Last time we looked, monosyllables were male, still dominant but sinking fast, wrapped in the arms of labial polysyllables, whispering to them with arachnoid grace: darling, darling.

--

Margaret Atwood
from Murder in the Dark

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I'm studying Hindi, so that when I meet your parents, I can tell them I love you.















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-----Email Message-----
Subject: thank you

Frank,

This past Friday night I found myself in a black hole of depression and I didn't know how I was going to make it through the night. Not knowing where to turn and feeling like I couldn't stop. I remembered seeing the Hopeline phone number in the front of your book. I talked with someone there for 2 and a half hours and I truly feel that they saved my life.

Thank you for the book, thank Hopeline for being there, and thank the people that send in their postcards so that others know they are not alone with their secrets.


-Casie (with permission)





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-----Email Message-----
(posted with permission)

Good evening Frank,

I sent you a post card in 2006. I made it on a picture. I liked it a lot. And I guess, so did you, because you posted it that fallowing Sunday. I was excited and happy, until I noticed that YOU HAD CUT OFF HALF OF MY SECRET. Then my excitement and happiness turned into violation and anger... I was so pissed! I didn't know why you had done that! I felt like you had taken my secret, and changed it... and then shown the whole world. I realize now, that you had CUT OFF MY SECRET because it wasn't the 'correct size' of a post card. Which STILL pisses me off, because I have seen a lot of post cards that you have posted, that isn't the "shape" of a fucking post card. But you don't change their wording, or edit them... (or maybe you do.)

Frankly, Frank... I have never, and probably will never sent you another post card again. Because it doesn't feel safe. Because what if you're going to change and alter that one, too? Now I doubt the post cards I see.... if you altered and edited mine, how would I know that you didn't just do the same thing, to some other poor girl, pouring her heart out on a dark night?

Final Kicker: That post card i sent was god themed. It said "Maybe I'll start believeing in G-d..." (and THE PART YOU FUCKING CUT OFF WOULD OF SAID "...Now that I am slowly loosing everything, there seems no better time") I bought your new book... Maybe because I wanted another PS book, or maybe because I was still holding out that I might see my old secret, properly displayed in whole... alas, I was left disappointed that my secret was no where to be found. Anywhere.

So... why am I writing you, 3 years later about a post card you don't remember? I'm not sure. I've started and deleted this same email to you so many times, over the last 3 years. I feel stupid for being this upset over something so silly. That's why I've deleted the past emails...Part of me feels like you deserve to know that you have hurt the feelings of one of your (long time) viewers. I still like Post Secret, I still support you, and I still tell others about this project, but you did take some fire out of my passion. And you did hurt my feelings, and I don't feel safe sharing my secrets with you any more.

But this time Frank, I might just hit the send button...


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On this week's post secret there is a picture of a girl with nipple peircings. The strange thing is, that girl looks just like me.. I have straight red hair that color and I am pale and thin just the same. I could send you a picture of myself if you do not understand why I am so upset. Please take it off!!


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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-secrets-best-of.html

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

Because of the book tour and PostSecret Events, I was unable to complete the Blog. I have included 20 extra secrets below from April 13, 2008.







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i just stopped in to check today's new secrets and saw one of mine that i sent . . . it's nice to see that as we change, our secrets do too.

thanks for the reminder that we are not always who we once were (and for always keeping my secrets safe).













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Frank-
I am typing this to you at the library because I cannot afford a postcard and stamp. My family and I are living in a self-storage unit illegally. It's getting so cold at night. I want them to know I'm sorry, it's my fault, but I can't say it.


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When my mom kicked my dad out, she joked that he could live in our storage unit. Now he does.


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I told them.


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Dear Frank,
this past sunday I was with my boyfriend (we are both young christians) after 12:00 and being a postsecret reader I grabbed his laptop to go to the postsecret website. As i typed in the post secret address the computer filled in the url with a pornography website. In my attempt to read other people's secrets, I discovered one of his.

The world works in a funny way sometimes.









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Thanks for making our secrets #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List.






Updated PostSecret Event Schedule for 2009
(Use the facebook links to RSVP and for more details.)




Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
11-04-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54654889989

La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico
11-07-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123761684771

University of Texas at Arlington, TX
11-11-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107083078765

Stetson University, Deland, FL
11-12-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126952807077

Bradley University, Peoria, IL
11-17-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132997630852

Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK
11-19-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101555234302

University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
11-30-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129923494471

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
12-04-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107469192412

Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ
12-07-09
Call for Details (480) 730-0205

Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO
12-09-09
Call for Details (800) 833-9327

Penn State Erie, Erie, PA
12-10-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109987144015

Book People, Austin, TX
12-12-09
Call for Details (512) 472-5050


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Sunday Secrets (April 13, 2008)
















-----Email Message-----
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 12:29 AM
Subject: Racing at CVS

Dear Frank,
Just thought I'd share my first secret. When I give communion at mass, I race the priest to see if I can make my line move faster.








-----Email Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:51 PM
Subject: college dream

Neither my Ivy League degree nor the successful career that followed ever made me happy... The only thing that has worked is taking care of other people -- wondering what would make them happy and doing my best to make it happen.















-----Original Email-----
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 1:59 AM
Subject: UNLV Event

Dear Frank,

You invited us tell our secrets tonight and I was going to go up but then boom, everyone was up there and I didn't get to tell my secret. I thought about it the whole rest of the night and as I drove home with my boyfriend I started to tell him some of my happy secrets than, the one I fear the most.

I cried my eyes out, the type where you can't breathe, he listened and simply held my hand.

It has never felt so refreshing and wonderful to get something off of your chest after almost 15 years.




-----Email Message-----
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:35 AM
Subject: shaving the pubes

My boyfriend didn't want to have sex with me because I don't shave my pubes. He broke up with me shortly thereafter. We're better off without him.






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Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:32 AM
Subject: littel+bird secret

My mom used to do the same thing when she did my laundry. It's how she got me and my brother to learn how to wash our own clothes!


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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: little bird postcard

it's okay, mom. i got it from your purse anyway. sorry.






-----Email Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: re: Sunday Secret - "Rainbow Alliance Pride Week"

I feel obligated to take pro-life flyers from groups at school so they won't think (know) I had an Abortion.






-----Email Message-----
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:27 PM
Subject: my school painted over our secrets.

I got my first PostSecret book a few weeks ago, and was inspired. A few close friends and I came up with the idea of making a secret wall in the stall of one of the girls bathrooms. It started with about 5 secrets, and within the next few weeks there was about 50. The secrets ranged from crushes to friend problems, and from rape and cutting.

Everyone knew about the secret wall. Today my best friend and I go into the stall to see if there were any new secrets, and all we saw was a large, tan, wall. Our school had painted over the secrets.

Tomorrow i'm starting the wall again.