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    LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: I no longer keep journals (I blog), but my grandmother did. She died last January, and the stuff my aunt found in those journals was downright toxic. ... more »
    Jello Mix: As an archivist I have processed my fair share of diaries and journals. I can say with good authority that the vast majority of them are about as titi... more »
    Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.: When I was a like eleven years old I kept a diary. Then my mom found it and read about how I was feuding with some girl from school and made me call h... more »
    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: I used to keep a diary when I was 12-13 (our teacher made us), but I stopped when I realised all of the entries were just about various boys I liked. ... more »
    rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: I make up scandalous and salacious things and write about them in my diary, hopefully when I become famous and then die people will think that my life... more »
    Ultraprison!: has anyone else read Mortified? i'm actually reading it right now. it's a collection of people's diary entries from junior high (ish), and then the ad... more »
    hatepaperdoll: Dear Diary, That weird smell in the storage room at work is finally gone! I guess whatever died in the wall has finally rotted away. What a day! (The ... more »
    RosePetalPlace: I can't believe how many of you poor Jezzies have stories about snooping moms! I think it's super inappopriate for a parent to read their child's priv... more »
    Khrushchev: The fact that Sontag was a writer who kept a diary makes her diary somewhat different from a lot of the comments here. There's an excellent quote from... more »
    hellosunshine: I've kept a journal as long as I can remember, though freshman year of college, it turned into a blog. I went through my old Diarylands and Xangas a c... more »
    RisaPlata: I think this says it all: [www.greyswriters.com] more »
    gold_gato: NO! I have a "death pact" with my sister. I trust her, and she knows what to burn. more »
    Plum-Pie: Caitlin 'pantorexia' Moran just wrote a great piece about diaries: 'What we are all forgetting is that everyone's diaries look like that. We don't hav... more »
    swimmingly: I spend too much time talking to myself to write it all down. Maybe I should start...since I find my self-musings first class entertainment. more »
    Maritsa: I can't keep a diary ever since my mom not only read my diary, but TALKED TO ME ABOUT IT. Not as in "I read in your diary that you think about hurting... more »
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    The Perks And Perils Of Keeping A Diary

    Do you have a diary, a place you write things you don't or can't tell other people? And after you die, would you want that diary published?