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"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."
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"We all have our secrets, some people like to hide it and some just don't like to reveal."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."
"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."
"I couldn't help but feel as if everyone had lied about everything. We all had secrets. We all had a dark side to our innocent cover. I wondered what we would be like, if we had been completely honest with each other in the first place. Maybe more people would be alive, but then again, more people could be dead."
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