“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

“Josephine Tate had no idea who she was or why she was being surrounded by a hoard of screaming miniature humans.”
San Francisco, California | 2002| By LAURIE GAUGUIN

“Drawers were crammed with letters that promised millions, if only she sent back a check.”
Sunnyvale, California | 2002 | By VICKY MLYNIEC

“He kissed me underwater, and later, he told me that I was beautiful, even at 220 pounds.”
New York | July 2005 to August 2006 | By TIEGEN KOSIAK

“Lying in my mother’s bed, tangled in the scent of her Jontue perfume, I closed my eyes and waited for it to be over.”
Alabama | October 1976 | By CLAIRE ADELSAY BROWNE

“In schoolboy crush mode, I carried around the letter and some pictures she sent me.”
Texas and Washington, DC | 1985 and 2004 | By DL

“Each year, the imaginary stakes grew, and it filled my Dad with childlike glee.”
South Salem, New York | 1989 | By LISA FAIRMAN

“As I stare at this woman and her little boy, something begins to happen to me.”
Lima, Peru | December 2005 | By VICTOR GONZALES

“Christmas in Georgia is not magical or pretty. The weather and the landscape just look dead….”
Georgia | 2004 | By GINA BASTONE