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Topic: Secrets

Taylor Swift performs onstage during " Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on November 09, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal. (Marcelo Endelli/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Keeping a secret can be energizing

Nicole Karlis
Shhh (Getty Images/Ryan McVay)

Why you're carrying around those secrets

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Melania Trump (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump spox to spill the beans on Melania

Jon Skolnik
Aerogrammes (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster)

It’s my mom's fault I stole her letters

Michèle Dawson Haber
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Michael Cohen (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Lawyers keeping secrets locked up

Elizabeth C. Tippett - The Conversation
A Banksy wall painting showing Israeli border policeman and Palestinian in a pillow fight. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

Why do we care who Banksy is?

Noah Charney
Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Larry Downing/Photo montage by Salon)

America's real secret revealed

Marcy Wheeler
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-58823p1.html'>Nadezhda Bolotina</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
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Sarah Sloat - Pacific Standard
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