1. They were blank on one side, and on the other side I listed some simple instructions.
    1.   empty
    2.   clean
    3.   white
  2. I asked people to anonymously share an artful secret they'd never told anyone before.
    1.   secretly
    2.   not named
    3.   unidentifiably
  3. And I handed out these postcards randomly on the streets of Washington, D.C., not knowing what to expect.
    1.   posted
    2.   located
    3.   distributed
  4. Soon the idea began spreading virally. People began to buy their own postcards and make their own postcards.
    1.   harmfully
    2.   verbally
    3.   quickly
  5. And this is my postcard collection today. You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a half-million secrets.
    1.   arrange things in an ordered pile
    2.   make something ready to use
    3.   put something in a position in order to deceive someone
  6. What I'd like to do now is share with you a very special handful of secrets from that collection.
    1.   version
    2.   small number
    3.   amount
  7. Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful.
    1.   emotional
    2.   enthusiastic
    3.   optimistic
  8. They can connect us to our deepest humanity or with people we'll never meet.
    1.   quality or condition of being generous
    2.   understanding and kindness towards other people
    3.   willingness to give money to poor people
  9. Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism, playing out silently in the lives of people all around us even now.
    1.   physical weakness
    2.   emotional weakness
    3.   ignorance
  10. I used to work with a bunch of uptight religious people, so sometimes I didn't wear panties, and just had a big smile chuckled to myself
    1.   sit up straight
    2.   very stiff
    3.   physical stiffness
  11. I love to speak on college campuses and share secrets and the stories with students. And sometimes afterwards I'll stick around and sign books and take photos with students.
    1.   wander around without purpose
    2.   stay back somewhere for a period of time
    3.   be reluctant about leaving
  12. Inside this envelope are the ripped up remains of a suicide note I didn't use. I feel like the happiest person on Earth now.
    1.   wrinkled
    2.   torn
    3.   bent