An Open Letter To My Ex: 100 People Confess The Powerful, Heartbreaking Things They’ve Been Afraid To Say Until Now
“You’re both the best and the worst thing to ever happen to me. Also, I miss you.”
“You’re both the best and the worst thing to ever happen to me. Also, I miss you.”
“When I was in 3rd grade I saw a kid get into a police car while I was in chess club. Turns out his father murdered his younger twin sisters by stabbing them to death. Apparently he told them to play hide and seek and murdered them when he found them.”
In the morning he confessed that he’d been interested in me for years and that his dreams had come true and started talking about our future. It was very awkward.
“The mother of my daughter beat the living sh*t out of me because I asked her what skirt she wanted me to iron for the morning.”
Once you were selected, your brain matter would be drained from your skull, and the empty shell of your body would be burned, the ashes repurposed as diamonds. But your mind would live on in the computer—at least until you turned 90 and they deleted you to make room for more data—so they didn’t consider it murder.
Every person has that one story that they can’t forget, that shook them to the core, that one event that will forever stick out in their mind and never, ever go away.
“One of my neighbors wrung the neck of my kitten and dumped its body in the driveway.”
There are well-researched stories of dogs who died of broken hearts, elephants with grudges, dolphins who commit suicide, and other oddities that make you think and say “Wow.”