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One night in December of 2011, a man sat in front of his computer, anxiously staring at the words that he had just typed into a chat window.

He was about to hit send and share his darkest secret with someone he'd only ever talked to online.

And it was the kind of secret that could totally destroy him.

And he knew sending it was probably a huge mistake.

But the loneliness and the guilt he was feeling was just sort of unbearable.

and he felt like he had to tell someone.

So after a long pause, he reached up and he hit send.

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On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 17th, 2010, a 54-year-old woman named Diane Zaleski pulled her car into her driveway in Union Township, New Jersey, which is a small suburb of New York City.

Diane was just about to get out of her car and go inside when her cell phone inside of her purse began to ring.

She opened it up and she looked at her phone

And the caller ID said it was her sister-in-law, Debbie.