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Reading all these secrets from people, I find myself saying, “oh! that’s me too..” Now I don’t know what is real and what is not. I can’t even tell if I’m telling the truth, or lying anymore…or can i…

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[Question]
Frank, do you think any of the secrets you get are made-up?

[Response]
I see the postcards as works of art and that makes the question about truthfulness more complicated. Is a secret true for the person who wrote it down, or for the reader who reacts to it?

I believe the personal and shared truths that secrets reveal can have many layers. A fictitious secret can become fact after we tell it. Other confessions can become untrue over time depending on our choices.

Maybe a “made-up” secret is your truth, even if you believe otherwise.

So in the strictest sense, I do not think each of the 500,000 secrets I have pulled from my mailbox contain the full truth – but I believe each one.

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The secret I mailed in last week was true when I wrote it. But it’s not anymore.

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

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Hi Frank

I live in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Which is many miles away from 13345 Copper Ridge Rd, Germantown, MD.

I just wanted to let you know I have shared with my friends here, we have all been affected, sometimes shocked, amazed that people share the same secrets as us, but above all else inspired to live a life that is full of love.

Quintin

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I’m sad about all the backsides of postcards I’ve missed because I’ve only just discovered the roll-over thing.

[Shared at a Event]

At my college we have a bulletin board inspired by . One day a photograph of a sunset was posted. Written across the photo in white ink it said “sometimes I wonder if anyone would care if I didn’t wake up in the morning”. A few weeks later another photograph was posted. This was a photo of a sunrise. In white ink it said “yes, I would”. . . I wish I could tell the person “thank-you” because the sunset was mine.

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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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Two weeks ago I was placed in a psych ward for attempting to take my own life. I was sitting alone until another boy came up to me and simply said, “You’re not the most fucked up person anymore”. For the first time in my life I didn’t feel like I was the only one struggling. I felt normal.

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That’s a Starbucks card and not a credit card…
That’s probably not helping your debt problem…

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