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Age 17, Chicago, Illinois, USA We’re not friends anymore. Maybe we never were. But I want you to know that I forgive you. I forgive you for telling me I looked fat in every pair of jeans I [...]

Age 15, Connecticut, USA Every little decision is an opportunity. I didn’t know it at the time. I was 15. The days seemed to run by. Not much to do, no where to go. Every day seemed to be a [...]

Age 18, Alabama, USA Dear Rapist, I trusted you, I called you a friend even. What did I do to make you think it was ok to drug and rape me? You knew I struggled with a pain pill addiction. You [...]

Age 16, Pennsylvania, USA I’ve cheated on two people. The first was during my freshman year of high school with my boyfriend of 6 months. The other, my sophomore year of high school with my [...]

Age 16, Dallas, Texas, USA Dear Lindsey, I hope you can forgive me for my empty presence. I got to get this off my conscience. I’m sorry for not being the person that I am when you needed [...]

Age 17, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA I hope I can forgive myself. I let my eating disorder control my life for too long. I never meant to hurt myself, but that’s what happened in the long [...]

Age 19, Connecticut, USA Dear Father Dearest, If someone had asked me a few years ago what I thought about you, I would have said that I hated you. But I don’t anymore. Now I pity you. [...]

Age 16, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Dear Counselor, I hope you forgive me when I hurt you. You were so nice and comforting. You were like a mom to me. That day was the worst one since I started [...]

Age 14,  Alabama, USA I called you my brothers; I looked up to you; I trusted you. I will never know why you chose to rape me the night before my fifteenth birthday and, after years of wondering [...]

Age 15, Atlanta, Georgia, USA I’m sorry. Not only to myself but to him. I was constantly harming myself. I didn’t think anyone cared and I thought that I was worthless. I was too busy [...]