"In 2013, My best friend's wife, my other friend, and the best friend I ever had, my grandparents (both, who raised me), (6 people in my life, including my girlfriend of 5 years) My grandmother passed while I was at my best friend's funeral, I got the call from my mother, this friend showed up at my grandfather's funeral a couple months earlier... That weekend, I tried to get away, I said, "I'm going to visit my girl this weekend." ... I went on facebook to tell her I was on my way, and a message from her mom was on her page, "It is with heavy heart I post this on my daughter's page, Lindsay passed away at 8:15 this morning from an aggressive cancer, I am so sorry, I am so lost." ... Turns out, she didn't want me to worry because of all the loss, and thought she had time, so she, didn't tell me. Fast-foreward to two years ago, All four of my dogs passed from various sudden illnesses. I had to watch each one die. One of a heart attack, one of an infection, one of kidney failure, and the last one of cancer. ... I've been unable to gather up my life since. Everyone is gone. I only get 2 to 5 hours of sleep per night since. I am living with such pain, and no one knows. I walked into the hospice room moments after my best friend passed, I watched my family fight, literally fight, like pulling hair and swinging, over who got what when my grandparents passed... I didn't get to say goodbye to my girlfriend. I went to all of their funerals. Everything in my life has stopped, and I feel like nothing matters, I think of them all daily. I miss my dogs, over 10 years they lived with me, slept in my bed, comforted me when I was down.. and then suddenly, in one year, they were all gone. No one really knows how hard it's hit me. I've had dark thoughts, often, not anymore, but, I had a gun in my mouth every couple days for 2 years. Only recently has the pain turned to numbness. An empty feeling, like I'm watching a movie, not living my life. I hide it well, but it's always there."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I introduced my two best friends. They got together. I spent their entire relationship quietly rooting for it to fail. It did, and I comforted both of them separately, and it was the best fortnight of my year."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I earn more than double what my best friend earns and I've been lying about it since we were 24, because I know the exact moment she'd start treating me differently and I'd rather have the friend."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I got a tattoo I hate three years ago. Everyone compliments it. I've built a whole story about what it means, and now the story is better than the tattoo and I can't get rid of either."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I have saved hundreds of lives in the work I do, i stopped counting sometime around 2010. I don't want to do it anymore but i feel like i have to. No matter how many people I have saved I'm destroyed and haunted inside by the people we have lost and couldnt. I'm so broken and tired of having to be the person that helps and i need to be the person someone else saves for once. I would turn to the people i work with, but I know we are all the same. I feel guilty, but I just wish I had got an office job and never got into all this. This should have never been my life."

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"To all the ladies, having a stinky poo is fine, we get it but please stop trying to mask it with perfume afterwards, smells like a unicorn took a dump on a birthday cake"

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"I ghostwrote every romantic thing my brother has ever sent to his wife, from the first message to the vows. She married both of us. Only one of us knows."

A Voice From The Shadows

"Nineteen year old stepson got in some bother. I told the police on him to try and teach him a lesson. He's now serving 18 months. The judge threw the book at him. Haven’t told anyone it was me"

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"9 years ago there was an article in the local newspaper about a group of teenagers who stole a bus which had its keys left in it and took it on a joyride down the sea front before crashing it. Partner and I said “dick heads!” Fast forward.. during a conversation with my daughter’s fiancé recently… found out he was one of them!! (Dickhead)"

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"I superglued my toaster to my preferred setting. It makes perfect toast. There's no need for it to be anywhere else"

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"I have 3 massive carrier bags filled with beer bottle tops. Started collecting in 2008. Husband wont let me throw them out in case they become currency if the financial system crashes."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I've never once been poorly without my partner of ten years being poorlier than me within a few hours. I've now given up with saying anything at all and riding through the pain to prevent them from faking an illness. They're never ill any more."

A Voice From The Shadows

"My best friend's husband told me he loved me two days before their wedding. I said nothing,"

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"Watched a dude carry a screaming toddler across the parking lot. He noticed me looking at him and said, “He’s mine, I’m not stealing him” and then before I could reply he added, “If I was gonna take one, it definitely wouldn’t be this asshole.”"

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"My 1st ever date I took her to Nandos. Wanting to look hard I ordered xtra hot instead of my usual lemon & herb. Went back to her parents & immediately needed the toilet. Spent the whole time there crapping my guts out. Her Mum drove me home with my soiled undies in a Lidl bag"

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"I'm spending the 4th of July alone. When people ask me my plans I always make some elaborate story up and tell people that i'm celebrating the way that I imagine others do every year, tell them what food i'm making, tell them what family members are coming. The truth is I have no family. I have spent the last 17 years alone of the 4th of July because i don't want to be a burden anyone."

A Voice From The Shadows

"I keep a note on my phone of every compliment anyone's ever given me, because my brain deletes them within the hour but keeps every insult since 2004 in mint condition."

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"Been a school Crossing Guard on the same corner for 15 years. There was a kid called George years back with a bad stutter, got bullied really bad for it at school. Every morning he'd tell me one fact he'd memorized the night before, to practice talking to someone who'd actually wait for him to finish. I acted amazed every time, even the dumb ones. Anyway. Last month a man in a suit stops at my crosswalk, looks at me, smiles, and says "penguins can't taste fish." I knew instantly. I hugged him like he was my own son, and I stood there on the corner holding my stop sign like a mess with happy tears while he talked to me till the end of my shift. He stuttered twice the whole time. I have never been more proud of anyone in my life. He's coming over on the 4th of July."

A Voice From The Shadows

"Sometimes I lie in bed next to the person I love most in the world and miss someone I invented when I was nineteen. She doesn't exist. She never did. But God, we were happy."

A Voice From The Shadows

"When I was younger....I had sex with three different partners in one day, at seperate times without them knowing. They all had the same first name too. One of them was very late that night, on a closed playground, and ball field."

A Voice From The Shadows