Sunday Secrets

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

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I always want to send the same secret...but i fear it will change once I send it...




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I'm the one who gets all the nasty feedback from parents, children and spouses about their dead family members we could not have possibly known about in our mailing list. I always hoped there was someone like you out there.
















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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 every one.





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I believe there are more true ones than I want there to be...