Brandon Stanton @humansofny Twitter profile

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Brandon Stanton

@humansofny

8 years

Did a presidential candidate just ask me to check out a sex tape?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?

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I've stayed quiet on the appropriation of my work because I think @HumansOfBombay shares important stories, even if they've monetized far past anything I'd feel comfortable doing on HONY. But you can't be suing people for what I've forgiven you for.

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Delhi High Court issues summons to 'People of India' in copyright infringement suit by 'Humans of Bombay' report by @prashantjha996

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“His mother wanted a break. You know, it’s hectic. She’s a single mother. She just bought a house. It’s a lot taking care of a kid on your own. She thought maybe it would be a good experience for him to come live with Uncle Olasegun for the summer. As soon as she suggested it, I

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"I'm raising a biracial grandson full time. Every time I try to discipline him, he says it's discrimination." http://t.co/H7XzvUTSjn

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@humansofny

9 years

An Open Letter To @realDonaldTrump

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7 years

“My husband had a sudden heart attack a few months ago. It was just a few blocks from here. They called me in to identify his body and then just let me walk right out onto 7th Avenue. I felt so lost. My friends were..."

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(1/11) “It was just a normal morning. Almost exactly five years ago. I was making tea in the kitchen..."

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@humansofny

5 years

“My mom threw me out of the house at seventeen for getting pregnant, then had me arrested when I tried to get my clothes..."

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5 years

“My husband got involved with a younger woman at work. I was relaxed about it at first..."

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7 years

“She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She’ll take the time to imagine..."

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9 years

“My wife passed away last January. We’d been married for 62 years. You caught me at a time when I’ve been..."

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7 years

“We were pretty poor back in Mexico. My parents were divorced. Mom did the best she could. She was always a hustler. She’d sell..."

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@humansofny

5 years

“It was a woman. I don’t even remember her name. But sometimes she’d take me out of my third grade class..."

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@humansofny

8 years

“I was taking a law school admissions test in a big classroom at Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only..."

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@humansofny

6 years

“I’ve had horrible luck finding a husband. Most marriages in this country are traditional, and I have a middleman who arranges interviews with potential suitors. He probably thinks I’m a snob. Because I either turn the men down or scare them off. But you should hear the..."

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4 years

“My brother and I were both placed into foster homes at a young age. He was lucky—he went to a family called the Ripleys..."

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@humansofny

5 years

“I used to be a corporate attorney for Coca-Cola..."

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4 years

“I thought studying in the US would be easy. I’d attended a UN conference in high school, so I already had a visa. I begged my father to let me go..."

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“He had five daughters. And whenever he came home from a work trip, we’d all line up to give him a kiss. But he always kissed my mom first, because she was his ‘first love...'"

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“I used to walk 12 kilometers to school. And every day along the side of the road, there’d be an old woman who was so sick that she couldn’t move. The sun would beat her. The rain would beat her. And nobody would help. I was only seven years old. I couldn’t stand..."

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1 year

Was just asked for comment by The Washington Post regarding a certain court case involving my work, but which thankfully doesn't involve me. I thought it would be worthwhile to share the statement here. For an example of a true artist who has done beautiful things with the

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4 years

“I became a mother without ever having sex. I was sixteen. My sister was older than me, and she was living a reckless life..." #quarantinestories

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@humansofny

8 years

"I'm not Barack Obama. I'm not Bill Clinton. Both of them carry themselves with a naturalness that is very..."

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6 years

“My parents were shot when I was ten years old. My mother was a lawyer and my dad was an engineer. They’d been working in South Africa, and they resisted a robbery attempt. At least that’s what my grandfather told me. I thought everyone was fooling me until their..."

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6 years

“I was a baby when I got married. I was only thirteen. I didn’t have an adolescence. One day I’m a child going to school, and the next day I’m a mother—responsible for a home. I cried too much. I didn’t know the person I married. He turned out to be a cold man. He had..."

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“I love walking around the city. I catch the Metro North train at 11:40 every morning. I go to the same gym that I’ve been going to for forty years. Then I just start walking. If you take big strides it really stretches you out. And there are millions of other people..."

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@humansofny

6 years

“Most teachers say I have messy handwriting but I’m just trying to write quickly so I can get it over with. The assignments don’t make sense. I’m not sure why our teacher is always saying ‘write about this’ or ‘write about that.’ If I decide to be an author, I’m not going..."

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8 years

"My daughter just graduated from junior high, so I'm going to my first Demi Lovato concert tonight. It's her..."

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6 years

“I was going to Arizona State when my dad passed away. I didn’t handle it well. Sort of fell apart. I had just paid $9,000 for the fucking semester. I opened my laptop, dropped the semester, opened up a new tab, bought a one-way ticket to New York, and threw myself a..."

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“My boyfriend left as soon as I got pregnant. I was terrified to tell my father, but he discovered my pregnancy test hidden in a drawer. He didn’t speak to me for a few days. We’d always been close, so I knew something was up. Finally he asked me if I wanted to tell him.. "

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6 years

“The first thing I noticed was a tremor. I’m a computer programmer and I kept accidentally hitting the shift key. Then I started to lose my sense of smell. And finally came the depression. My wife made me see a doctor. She said to me: ‘Either you get on an..."

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7 years

“My father never valued my mother. She did everything for him. She worked all day, then she came home to cook dinner. My father just..."

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5 years

“Adults guess and assume that I’m not going to understand things just because I’m a little kid..."

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6 years

“I’m from a small country in Africa called Benin. I won the visa lottery to come here. I didn’t even know I was eligible. My brother entered my name and didn’t even tell me. I was studying to be a psychiatrist at the time. I assumed that I’d be able to continue with.. "

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“I’d always dreamed of getting a college degree, but I got married right after high school. We started having children right away, so it wasn’t easy to convince my husband to let me study. The one time I tried to mention it, he immediately said ‘no.’ But a few years later..."

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@humansofny

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“I was married when I was seventeen. My whole life was my family. I barely left the house because my husband brought me everything I needed. I was far too innocent. I had no idea about anything, but the world has a way of teaching you. Fifteen years ago my husband died..."

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8 years

“I come from Ghana. I’m always smiling. People ask me: ‘Isaac, why are you always smiling?' I tell them: ‘What else can I do?’ I am..."

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@humansofny

6 years

“I’m on the way to buy soft drinks for my mother. I also fetch water, and sweep, and help her wash clothes. She calls me ‘boss’ because I work so hard, but I love to help her because she cares for me so much. She buys me clothes. She reads me..."

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@humansofny

8 years

Today in microfashion...

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4 years

“I was just a neighborhood kid. There was no running water in our house. Or electricity..." #quarantinestories

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“My mom had her own issues, so I was never really parented. I spent most of my time alone. Cereal out of the box. Packets of ketchup. The occasional cold chicken finger that she’d bring back from a night of partying. I left the house when I turned twelve and started..."

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8 years

“She lost her back legs when she got hit by a car. She’d already been returned to the shelter twice already. She’s a lot of work."

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“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in..."

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@humansofny

6 years

“He always wanted a daughter. He tells me that all the time. My friends think I’m so lucky because a lot of their dads aren’t affectionate. Some have even been forced to stop studying and get married. But my father wants me to be successful. He wants me to live..."

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5 years

“It was just the three of us. And dad was a truck driver so he was gone most of the time..." #quarantinestories

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5 years

“I’m ninety-six years old. I’d rather just take a pill and get it over with..."

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5 years

(11/11) “I got to work. I wrote letters to the governor. I wrote letters to Obama..."

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“Both of us are really shy..."

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6 years

“It happened in May. I was driving my friend’s Mercedes to school because my car had broken down. And suddenly I got pulled over. I turned on the interior lights. I showed the policemen my ID. I called my friend on the phone and asked him to explain the..."

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“My mom is in prison. I see her every fifteen days. My siblings take me to visit her, but then they leave me when it’s over. My grandmother doesn’t want me. My uncle beats me up. I have nowhere to live. The only person I have in my life is my mom. Every time I..."

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“I was only sixteen when I got pregnant. I was so disappointed in myself. I thought I’d end up like one of those pregnant teens on Maury. I did finish high school – I will say that. But afterwards I had no good options. My family didn’t have money. My son’s father..."

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“We had a big discussion whether to raise him in Africa or move to the states. We both grew up in Ghana. But I got my PhD in West Virginia, so moving to America was an option. The job opportunities would certainly be better there. Both of us are professors..."

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“My dad brought me here at the age of seven. My mom stayed back in Jamaica, so it was just me and him. He was very strict. It was cultural, mostly. He’d served in the military back home. So he controlled all areas of my life-- school, sports, socializing. Nothing was ever..."

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“I’m ninety but I feel like I’m fifty. I don’t take any medicine. I never complain. I’m just happy to be alive. I tell people: ‘Start..."

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5 years

“Look at my sister..."

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6 years

“My mom has nobody to care for her but me. The last stroke affected her brain so badly. She’s like the living dead. All she can do now is breathe. Last month I found a small wound on her toe. I thought it was something small. It looked so small. So I just put a bandage..."

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“Papa loves Ibrahim. He’s my beloved. He’s my whole world. I have four other sons, but I love him a little more because he needs it a little more. The doctors recommended an abortion but I wouldn’t hear it. He was only three pounds when he was born. He needed half a..."

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“Being six is so hard. I have to go to school, and do math, and do a lot of words, and spell things, and take tests every Friday, and exercise, and play games that I don’t want to play. And mom says we’re going to have another baby soon, so it’s going to be crazy. We wanted.."

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“I was working as a prep cook at a BBQ joint in Harlem. I got off work early one day, and I discovered my wife with another man. That was the beginning of all this. I’d been with her for twenty-one years. I was devastated. I got right back on the bus and headed back..."

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“We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year. We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s-- which everyone sucked at. But we became best friends, and the next year decided to get a house..."

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6 years

“I just finished medical school. Now I’m heading to residency, which is supposed to be even tougher. I’ve been working sixteen-hour days. Then I’m expected to study every night when I get home. Some of my classmates only sleep three hours per night. I tried that..."

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(1/11) “There is a moment I’ll never forget. My mother was teaching a class at our home, and my father hit her in front of the students. It was humiliating..."

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“I don’t think I’m going to miss eighth grade. It’s been a tough year. A lot of my friends are struggling with depression and self-harm..."

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7 years

Today in microfashion...

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8 years

“The hardest part of first grade is 'eleven plus eleven' because a lot of the class don't be knowing that."

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7 years

“We met six months ago at a dance night. His wife passed away three years ago. I’d been married for thirty years and gotten divorced."

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6 years

“I want to live a happy life. I’m tired of living a poor life. I’m trying to save money for school but nothing is working. I’ve left home three different times looking for work. The first time I found a job as a housekeeper. But every morning when I got dressed the man..."

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6 years

Shortly after arriving in Lagos, my guide showed me a story that was being passed around Nigerian social media. There was a woman who’d been stopped in traffic behind a crowded prison truck, and she witnessed a food vendor running alongside, shoving his food between the bars..."

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6 years

“This is my brother. We’re helping people into their parking spots. School starts in a few days and we’re trying to raise money for our school fees. Also I want to get a bicycle because all my friends have bicycles. They use their bicycles to make me angry because I don’t..."

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“I have four boys. I was a single mother for most of my life. But I’ve been a good mother. I’m going to pat myself on the back for that."

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5 years

“My stripper name was Tanqueray. Back in the seventies I was the only black girl making white girl money..."

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8 years

“We met in college. He walked me home from school every day for five years. We would talk about everything..."

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7 years

“My daughter was about to graduate high school when I lost my husband to a motorbike accident. She wanted to go to university but there was no one to support us. I’m an old-fashioned person. I’m not very smart. I only graduated from junior high school."

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“I was eighteen years old. I went out one night with a male cousin and his friends. I felt safe with him. But he gave me a drink and I started to not feel like myself. He took me home to his house. It was dark inside and I could hear people..."

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6 years

“I was a teller at a bank. I was working the front and couldn’t talk on the phone, so she sent me a text. She sent two texts actually. The first one said ‘I’m pregnant.’ And the second one said: ‘It’s twins.’ We weren’t even living together at that point. I was only..."

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6 years

“Ten years ago I started a company. It wasn’t a unicorn or anything, but after a few years it was worth a couple million dollars. And that was enough for me. I never wanted to be Bill Gates. All I wanted was financial security. And I thought I had achieved it. We had a..."

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5 years

“I knew from the beginning..."

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7 years

“When you’re six you have like twenty-eight responsibilities. You have to help your mom. You have to help your dad. And you have to keep your room clean so your parents don’t come in and see your secrets. I have over one hundred secrets and only five have been discovered... "

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“It wasn’t a secret. The first day we met I told her I was bisexual, and that I’d been with men and women my entire life. At the time she shrugged it off. And it wasn’t an issue for the first ten years of our marriage. The relationship was perfectly loving and..."

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“When I was a boy I’d skip school to sell roses on the street. My parents gave up trying to educate me. They said: ‘He’s lost his mind over the roses.’ I wanted to be around flowers all the time. I sold so many that I opened my own kiosk across from a famous country..."

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9 years

"I want to be a mailman so I can let people know when it's their birthday." http://t.co/9BqNPDs0Mu

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6 years

“It happened so quickly. I’d just quit my job at an after school program. I’d been unemployed for three days. I was waiting for my train at the 125th Street Station, and I noticed so much animosity. It didn’t feel like a sharing and caring kind of place. So I said..."

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1 year

I’ve always loved @HumansofAdam because Debra has stayed so true to the art, and has never viewed the stories that she shares as the “front end” of a business

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“My first end-of-life patient was a 97-year-old man. He had a much younger girlfriend; she was seventy-four. But they loved each other so much. Back when their spouses were still alive, the four of them had been great friends. They would double date together. And when their

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4 years

“I grew up near Harvard. I used to skateboard in Harvard Square as a teenager, but I never felt like I belonged there..." #quarantinestories

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8 years

“I covered a lot of Trump rallies as a journalist. I didn’t feel any hatred. People were more curious than anything. I was never..."

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5 years

“I’d just turned twelve. I think Dad realized that I needed somebody in my life..."

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9 years

“My mother died when I was two years old, so it’s just me and my father. He’s been really angry with me..." http://t.co/lkjRaUYLVr

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5 years

“If I’m away too long, he’ll come find me. Even if I’m just upstairs watching my program on television..."

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6 years

“Once when I was fourteen I was getting on the Q Train in Brooklyn. It was two o’clock in the afternoon. I was going to a friend’s house. I swiped my card quickly because the train was coming. And as I ran to catch it, an undercover police officer just grabbed..."

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“We were flying to Acapulco on the day after our wedding. There was another couple sitting in front of us, and I pointed them out to my husband because the woman had a huge rock on her finger..."

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6 years

“I thought it was a prank. I was only twenty years old. It was the first time we’d ever had sex. We discussed ending the pregnancy but I begged her to consider keeping it. Both of our families were supportive. I promised that I would provide. And once we decided to..."

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“He wasn’t my type. He was nerdy. He was wearing Converse. And he talked like a robot. But it had been over a year since anyone had paid attention to me..."

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7 years

“I knew my husband very well. We’d been living together for twenty-one years. So it was obvious that something was going on. Suddenly..."

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7 years

“Zoe loves the movies. So I knew if I was going to propose, it had to involve the movies. But I can’t make a movie myself because..."

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6 years

“My high school wasn’t very challenging. I never had to struggle. I was 15th in the class. Section leader in my marching band. Top of this. Top of that. Where I grew up, not too many people go to college out of state. So when I got accepted into West Point, I assumed..."

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5 years

“My parents are afraid that I’ll be arrested. I’m their daughter and they love me so much, and they don’t want anything to happen to me..."

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6 years

She agreed to go to a therapist for the first time. I used funds from the HONY Patreon to purchase ten sessions, and will cover much more if she finds value in them.

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7 years

“My mother passed away during childbirth, and a woman from a nearby village tried to purchase me from my grandfather. At first he was insulted, but the woman kept begging, so he finally agreed to marry her into our family. She never breastfed me. She never..."

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4 years

“Mom died on the first day of school. She’d been really sick that entire summer. And she passed away on a Monday..." #quarantinestories

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