“I last talked at God on the beach at Los Palmas. It was nine years ago. Randy was drowning in front of me.”
Playa Los Palmas, Mexico | Spring of 1998 | CINDY FEY

“Once I was free from the marriage, I had nothing to fall back on.”
Michigan | February 2005 to October 2007 | By NATALIE M.

“My daughter has said it is OK to share the truth of her battle with depression. Because it might help someone.”
California and New York | 1980s to present | By JANE DOVER

“If I had actually gone to the reunion, I might have seen a trace [of the youngsters] in those bloated, decaying faces.”
Nebraska and California | 1940s and 1986 | By GRANT FLINT

“He was headed straight for the back, where the outcast sat alone in the very last pew. And he gave me communion.”
Chattanooga, Tennessee | September 2007 | By KATIE FLANNERY

“Most people would be surprised if they actually knew how close the nearest sadomasochists’ dungeon was to their own home.”
Chicago, Illinois | 2005 to 2007 | By ANNABELLE RIVER

“She got up to leave. Beneath her skirt, I saw the quick-twitch smoothness of muscle in her calves and thighs.”
Northeastern Pennsylvania | 2004 | By ALANE LUCAS

“My head pounds. I think I connected with the chipped refrigerator door twice. I’m not sure. I’m dizzy.”
Lowell, Massachusetts | 1980 | By JANE TROLLEY

“She was the fingernail scraping my chalkboard, and I was the Yankee intruder in her genteel South.”
Charlottesville, Virginia | 1997 | By MARLA MUNTNER

“Charlotte blurted out her horrible secret - she was being sexually harassed by one of the programmers.”
Sacramento, California | 1990 | By JORDAN DAKOTA