The Strangers Project

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Two months ago yesterday, my husband of 12 years, boyfriend of 19 years, and father of my 11 and 8 year old children moved out of our home we built 4 years ago. He said we were just too different. Does it take 19 years to figure that out? Many days I have wondered if I will ever feel "ok" again. Today I know I will. I know I will still hurt. I know I will still be angry. I know I will still be overwhelmed... more

There are a lot of ways to explore the stories. You can view all stories, handwritten stories, typed stories, random stories, or you could browse the gallery.

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Supporting the Project

March 25, 2013

Hi all! Welcome! I’m getting a lot of emails about ways to support the project. If you’re interested in collaborating or volunteering check out the Get Involved page, and if you’re interested in buy the book or donating (any amount, it’s pay what you want!) you can do that here. Thanks!

Major Site Updates!

March 19, 2013

I took the day to do some major updates to the site and I decided to launch them a little earlier than I expected! The new changes just went live. Here’s what’s different:

+ New Mobile Menu
+ New Homepage with recently updated stories
+ New Footer
+ New Gallery section
+ Images zoom to a larger size now making smaller handwriting easier to read
+ Lots of behinds the scenes fixes for performance

Hope you enjoy!

Reddit AMA today!

March 7, 2013

I’ve been getting a lot of questions via email, so I thought I’d try an AMA! Ask me anything here.

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