“My husband ran two races against the ferocious desert storms during his deployment. The first was a victory.”
Northeastern Iraq | Fall of 2006 | By ARTIS HENDERSON

“There was a small piece of me that thought he might kill me, now that he knew I’m Jewish.”
London, England | July 24, 2006 | By MARILYN MILLSTONE

“Mommy has cancer. You don’t know what that is, but I do.”
Washington, DC to Denver, Colorado | January 11, 2007 | By DANIEL WEINSHENKER

“I never imagined I’d reveal the most unusual place I’ve had sex in front of 800 straight people.”
Panama Canal cruise | December 2004 | By RANDALL SHIRLEY

“I felt an odd sensation — something like a giant rubber band pulling my ‘99 Taurus backward.”
Tuscaloosa, Alabama | June 2007 | By CARMEN K. SISSON

“[My teacher] was smart enough to hate his job, but not smart enough to cut us some slack.”
North Dakota | 1962 | By MERLE KESSLER

“In my neighborhood, when a cop said move, you moved.”
Cleveland, Ohio | Aug. 5, 1955 | By MANSFIELD B. FRAZIER

“More Americans lose their virginity on prom night than any other night in their lives.”
Halifax, Nova Scotia | June of 1995 | By RYAN MURPHY

“I would play the kill me game. I picked up every criminal I could find.”
Baltimore, Maryland | 1992 to 1993 | By TOM D’ANTONI

“All night I have hardly slept. And now Larry is right outside my window.”
Ben Lomond, California | Summer of 1962 | By CLAUDIA STERNBACH