LIVED THROUGH THIS

The Crushing Burden of Other People’s Secrets

I carry the weight of the secrets kept from me

Laura Friedman Williams
Published in
5 min readOct 30, 2022

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Vintage storage chests
Photo by Sam Jotham Sutharson on Unsplash

Having recently unearthed two massive, life-changing secrets that directly impacted me, I spend a great deal of time contemplating the life I lived before I knew versus the life I live now, after.

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Laura Friedman Williams
Human Parts

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.