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02 November 2025 @ 12:08 am
Sunday Secrets
02 November 2025 @ 12:06 am
Secret in a Secret
To: “Frank Warren” <frank@postsecret.com>
Subject: Re: I Quit Altoid Tin
Hi Frank: Did you open the Altoid Tin?
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No I thought it was a vampire. Vape
-Frank
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Nope, there is a note inside.
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Oh! you sent it in?
(Vampire was an autocorrect that I left in.)
-Frank
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I thought the vampire autocorrect was funny and very timely for October.
Yes…I was anxious to send it but made myself seal it and drop it in the mailbox the day I wrote it. My heart dropped when I saw my tin had made it and then I felt relief my note wasn’t there (what if someone recognized my handwriting?!) but I kept coming back to it, refreshing the page over and over, thinking that my note was like a genie stuck in a bottle and needing it to be released. So I actually sent an email to you, to release my so called genie. I don’t believe it will grant wishes but I hope it brings something needed to someone else.
I’ve been sober since I wrote it and two weeks isn’t much but writing the note and just letting myself be completely honest was such a release and we all have to start somewhere.
On, a related note, I’ve been visiting postsecret every Sunday since it started. I don’t even remember how I found it but it’s been a safe haven for me over the years and reading the secrets every Sunday provided me a weekly place where I never felt alone, especially as a teenager and continues to comfort me weekly. It’s the first thing I do when I wake up on Sunday. Thank you for creating this project and for keeping our secrets and keeping it going and everyone else that is brave enough to send in their secrets.
I opened the bag the postoffice put your secret in and looked for the best place to cut it open to get at the note, but it’s so well sealed – and cute. Is it okay if we let your story stand and preserve the note as a mystery?
-Frank
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02 November 2025 @ 12:04 am
Classic Secrets
31 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Heart Mountain
29 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Airspeed
27 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Document Forgery
25 October 2025 @ 11:22 am
Sunday Secrets
25 October 2025 @ 11:20 am
PostSecret License
To: “frank” <frank@postsecret.com>
Dear Frank-
Twelve years ago I mailed in my license plate with the message “I don’t know where my home is” scrawled on the front. I had just dropped out of college and moved across the country to live with my dad. A lot has changed since then, but some things haven’t.
My life imploded (again) and I found myself back in my dad’s house; I changed careers, graduated college, and went to grad school. But that secret has followed me for a decade, often featured on the website or exhibits.
It popped up a few weeks ago and I thought “nothing has changed, I’m still just that lost kid” and then I realized how wrong I was. I’m not sure that I feel any more at home here now than I did back then, but something has changed. I found home in myself. Finally the skin that I live in feels like enough. Thank you for being a place of growth, love, and acceptance for all these years.
-Erica
Hi Erica,
Thanks for your secret! I remember receiving that “naked mail” over a decade ago and yes it has been shared many times; on the web, in my PostSecret talks, and in museums from the Smithsonian to the Museum of Us.
I know many people have felt a connection to your secret and I believe many will now relate to your story behind it. Courage is contagious and I believe your story will inspire others to tell their truth – and take that first step in their journey.
Your secret definitely has a home, so glad you found yours.
Be well,
-Frank
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25 October 2025 @ 11:15 am
Classic Secrets
25 October 2025 @ 08:42 am
Database maintenance
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
24 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Continents
22 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Shielding Chart
20 October 2025 @ 04:00 am
Emperor Palpatine
20 October 2025 @ 10:11 am
AWS outage
DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.
Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.
Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.