This isn’t the same as, like, “people like me.” There, I’m average. While they have me, though, they seem to want to tell me everything. Stories pause, and then go on a beat longer than they do when other people are around. But, my Muppet face betrays a certain truth: I always listen. Diarists share their stories with me, for the column, for a lot of reasons, but the likeliest of them is the simplest: to have a place to put a secret.

Source: thestar March 27, 2018 18:00 UTC