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What makes us keep or share our secrets? Live Conversation with Frank Warren, Post Secret author on May 4th, 1 pm EDT.

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Responding to your thoughtful questions helped me understand the project better.

Here is my address for mailing secrets:
13345 copper ridge road
Germantown, MD 20874

"Free your secrets and become who you are."

Thanks,
-Frank

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  • Carol Junsay

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    May 4 2012: Trust & paranoia make me share or keep my secrets.

  • Pawan Naulakha

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    May 4 2012: Frank is telling a lie necessary implication that you want to hide a secret?
    Or are there any other factors enabling that.
    How do you free yourself from the clutter of lie hood?

  • Stephanie Miganne

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    May 4 2012: So thank you for that! You are bringing back memories...:) good ones! I like the idea of sharing people vulnerabilities and imperfections in a fresh and innocent way and not as self-promotion as it is too often the case nowadays , postsecret is selfless! :)

  • leah thomson

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    May 4 2012: What's the weirdest thing you've ever received? Have you ever received anything other than secrets?

  • Stephanie Miganne

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    May 4 2012: Hello , just seeing you on Ted , made me emotional... someone told me about your website last year before Xmas , someone I cared deeply for , I went to visit him and he showed me your website ...I was ver sad to hear it was close a few months ago ... and now I don't talk to this person anymore , he's out of my life!

  • Elaine P.

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    May 4 2012: Has anyone sent in a secret in a letter form instead or a postcard? Has anyone asked for you to write back to them, if so have you?
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      May 4 2012: I get postcards, letters, seashells, plates, stuffed animals, naked Polaroid photos, a knife, a coconut and an uncooked Idaho potato. All with secrets on them - wedding bands too.

      -F

  • Lesha Braun

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    May 4 2012: I just found out my mom has cancer after not speaking to her for over a year. She is going to die. Any advice.
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      May 4 2012: All moms die, just like we all will but how fortunate that you can be alive and together today.

      (Yeah, I'm better at getting secrets than giving advice.)

      -F
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    May 4 2012: The worst secrets in my view are two
    1. Those kept by religion.... by a rude comment - as the book says or as the church commands or as the prophet hath said...
    2. Those kept by the big guv - governments... be it authorial like the Chinese or the ultra capitalist like US ... they all have secrets...

  • KC Smyth

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    May 4 2012: When will the next Post Secret book be out?

  • Julia Bennett

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    May 4 2012: Have you ever tried to contact someone who has sent in their secret?
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    May 4 2012: Last 10 minutes. This has been fun!

    -F

  • Marena Bach

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    May 4 2012: when you were young, what did you want to be when you "grew up" ?
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      May 4 2012: I had a difficult childhood so my aspirations were small.

      It feels like PostSecret found me.

      -F
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    Kumar Sambhav Manu

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    May 4 2012: Importance of information is to blame. When I know an info can break someone or destroy a relationship, or cause me to lose out... I keep a secret...

  • Elaine P.

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    May 4 2012: After the time is up for this live conversation will you continue to answer the questions that you haven't gotten to yet?

  • Britney Johnson

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    May 4 2012: Can we do our own Post Secret veil of secrets in our own town?

  • Pawan Naulakha

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    May 4 2012: Frank, I am used to speak a lot of lies. Not that I want to but it automatically happens. How do I control?
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      May 4 2012: Not an uncommon secret. Do you have enablers?

      -F

      • Pawan Naulakha

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        May 4 2012: I just want to show that I am not a low class but a great achiever.
        Why does it happen how do I ground myself?
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    May 4 2012: Most popular secret. . . "I pee in the shower".

    :)

    -F

  • Lesha Braun

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    May 4 2012: Frank when are you coming to Canada ? I want to go to a post secret event sooooo bad

  • Stephanie Chambers

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    May 4 2012: Just signed in. Will this conversation be posted on TED, or is it a secret?

  • Marena Bach

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    May 4 2012: when can we find out dates for 2013 shows?
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      May 4 2012: The best way is to go to postsecret.com and enter your email address in the PostSecret News field (join the mailing list).

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  • Eileen Scanlon

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    May 4 2012: Are the Sunday Secrets always from the pervious week or do you take some old ones too?

  • Elaine P.

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    May 4 2012: Have you ever wanted to move yet been stopped because the secrets get mailed to your home?
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      May 4 2012: Early on in the project my wife sarcastically told me, "Gee thanks Frank, now we can never move from our house."

      -F

  • Maria Ramires

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    May 4 2012: I'm keeping these feelings from someone I care about very much and I haven't seen him in over 5 years. Yesterday, I wrote him a 8-page letter telling him about all that I have felt since I met him, over 15 years go (I'm only 22!). Now I don't know whether or not I should send it to him... Any suggestions?

    Also, please do come to the UK some time soon!

    All the best! *

  • KC Smyth

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    May 4 2012: Frank, you have mentioned that you get any post cards in the mail everyday, but there are so many you do not publish. Every Sunday morning, I look at your site while sipping my coffee, I become disappointed that there isnt more. Why do you publish so few? Would you consider posting more secrets on Sunday?
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      May 4 2012: It's just me. I do not delegate so what I am able to do is limited. I wish I could share them all - maybe someday. But for my summer interns who sometimes read through all the postcards, they tell me they are thankful for my curation every Sunday.

      -F

  • Elaine P.

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    May 4 2012: Do you ever think of what will happen when you choose to end the PostSecret project? Do you think people will continue to mail you secrets even after it ends?

  • JM Filipowicz

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    May 4 2012: Do you ever feel like a voyeur, reading and publishing people's secrets?
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      May 4 2012: My dad thinks the project can be voyeuristic. My mom has called PostSecret diabolical and rejected our offer to send her a copy of the latest PostSecret book...One of my secrets...

      -F

      • JM Filipowicz

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        May 4 2012: How do you feel about your Mom and Dad being against the project?

  • Kathryn Lanza

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    May 4 2012: I would love to attend one of your talks, are you planning on coming to NY any time soon?

  • Marnie Wilson

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    May 4 2012: When the day comes you decide to no longer collect/publish postsecret, what will happen to all of the secrets?

  • Lucy Gerra

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    May 4 2012: Thank you for all the work you do for Post Secret and to everyone else involved. I have never felt more connected than when I am reading other people's most intimate secrets.

    I anxiously await the day I read that Post Secret is coming to England! I would love to thank you in person.

    Keep up the good work :)

  • Eileen Scanlon

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    May 4 2012: Are you planning on writing another book soon?
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