2007年VOA标准英语-Thousands of Secrets revealed!（在线收听）
Washington, D.C.
10 July 2007
Nearly everyone has secrets, something that, for whatever reason, they have never shared with anyone. An artist in Washington, DC has created a project that allows people to anonymously share their secrets and learn the secrets of others. It is called PostSecret and allows people to reveal anything as long as it is true and has never been shared with anyone before. For producer Yi Suli, VOA's Elaine Lu has the story.
Would you share a secret with a stranger? Many share their secrets with one man. Frank Warren has collected more than 100,000 secrets from people all over the world.
Warren reads several anonymously sent in secrets. "All my life I want to look like Liz Taylor. Now Liz Taylor starts to look like me,” is one. "Guess what mom? My nipples are pierced and you are the only one who doesn't know," is another.
Warren started PostSecret as a community art project in November 2004. At first, Warren gave out postage-paid postcards on the street inviting people to send their secrets to him. Soon, people were sending homemade postcards on their own.
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| The address for PostSecret is 13345 Cooper Ridge Road, Germantown, Maryland 20874-3454 |
Of those, 20 are published on the PostSecret website every week.
"What I am trying to do is pick those cards and those secrets that have a special ring of authenticity to me. And also select secrets that cover the full spectrum of human emotions. So every week I try to select one secret that is funny, or sexual, or joyful, or tragic, or philosophical, or confusing."
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| Secrets sent to PostSecret |
"One of the biggest surprises for me is how beautiful the postcards are,” says Warren. “As you can see, people use photographs, pictures, diagrams to further express their secret."
Warren's secrets have led to several books and even inspired a hit song.