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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 14, Mesquite, Texas, USA Dear…Everyone, Including Myself, Nothing is better left unsaid. I am sorry because this is long overdue. I wish the words could pour from my fingertips in a [...]

Age 14, Chicago, Illinois, USA I struggled to understand why my parents did these things… It started when I was younger, but I grew to realize what I was going through wasn’t okay. My [...]

Age 15, Georgia, USA When I was younger, I was in a sexually and physically abusive relationship. I was scared of love. Scared of men. Scared of myself. I started hurting myself at age 11, not [...]

Dear Mother: Every time you told me that I was worthless, you chipped at my self-esteem. Every time you laughed at me, made fun of me, compared me to my sister or a neighbor or a friend, you [...]