Somepeople collect stamps. Other people collect works of art or musicalinstruments. But a man in the American state of Maryland collects secrets.
Forthe past 10 years, people have been sending Frank Warren postcards and otherobjects with secrets written on them. He now has a million secrets. “It's adrawing of a lift. And the secret says: ‘I feel guilty when I take lifts forone floor, so I limp when I get out.'” Frank said.
Tenyears ago, Mr. Warren created an art project called PostSecret. People thenbegan to send him postcards, other objects and emails telling their secrets.Every Sunday, he chooses 10 secrets and puts them on the website.
Mr.Warren says he created PostSecret so people could share their secrets in a safeplace. “I was struggling with secrets in my own life. And it was by creatingthis safe place where others could share their secrets with me, I think thatspace was something I needed just as much as they did.”
Hehas published six books full of the secrets people have shared with him. Onesecret in each book is his. Eric Perry delivers mail for the U．S. Postal Service. He has broughtthousands of secrets to Frank's home over the past three years. “I have acouple of the books that Frank's given me and I've read them all and my familyhas read them all and it's wild！”
Theproject itself was once one of Frank's secrets. His wife Jan didn't knowexactly what he was doing until the first book was published. The publishertold him that the address was going to be on the book, and he refused. However,the address was there just because of the contract between them. ActuallyWarren wasn't very happy about that.
Somepeople tell Frank of their secret desire to kill themselves. So he and thePostSecret community have raised more than $1 million to help prevent suicides(自杀)．
