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WHAT if you were given a chance to reveal a secret without anyone ever knowing it’s yours? Would you? PostSecret is a blog that allows you share your deepest, darkest secrets anonymously. The blog is a collection of secrets from people across the US and around the world containing revelations ranging from childhood humiliation and betrayal, to funny experiences and fantasies. You can reveal practically anything, and you only have to follow two rules: it must be true and it should never have been previously shared with anyone else. Frank Warren, the artist behind the project, put up the blog in January 2005 and has since received and displayed up to 200,000 secrets. The site is updated every Sunday with 20 new secrets, all 4-by-6-inch postcards in which the secrets are written, drawn or otherwise creatively put together. The site is simple and straightforward. The artwork is posted one after the other, sometimes with a short explanation or story. Past secrets aren’t archived and cannot be accessed after an update. And you can’t post comments on the blog, in keeping with its non-judgmental feel. Some people probably find consolation in knowing that somewhere out there, someone is hiding the same dirty little secret. To most, it’s simply entertaining to read another person’s embarrassing, disgusting or stupid secret. Is it any wonder then that the postcards keep coming?