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What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anonymous. When I was in 6th or 7th grade, I read The Body Book while at a friends house. You know, the American Girl book about your changing body. One of the topics was about your . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anonymous. My daughter seems like an average child for the first few minutes you meet her. Then you can see that something is different. Maybe it's the way she talks about her three . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Brooke F.  There are a million things I want you to know about being the spouse of a brain injury survivor. But, as I push my husband around town, I find myself wishing that I . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Kimby. I want you to know that I was 38 years old, a little overweight, but overall healthy. On Monday, June 16, I had what I thought was a gall bladder attack. Two weeks earlier, I . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Lindsay. When I was 11 years old, my father died suddenly of a massive heart attack. He was only 37. My younger siblings and I struggled with this loss. Whenever you lose someone, . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Cayce Pack.  Coming back to the United States, people often ask me if I was afraid. Afraid of terrorism, of jihad, of living in a land that hates the Jewish faith. Afraid of . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anonymous.  I couldn’t pee. I had to. I had the sensation to go, but I couldn’t. I remember, as a kid, that this sensation would eventually go away, but this time it wouldn’t. I . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by K's Dad.  This is a letter I wrote to our foster daughter's birth mom. I don't actually have any way of getting it to her but it helped my heart to write it.Dear Ms. C.Hi, I am . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Amy Dill.  Mother's Day is a day when all mothers fantasize about lounging by the pool with a cold drink, a good book, and not a care in the world.But that seldom happens.It . . .

What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s guest post is by Anonymous.  Growing up in a fundamentalist Christian background, I struggled through my childhood, teens, & early adult years to "do the right thing." It seemed EVERY decision . . .