Brandon Stantonযাচাইকৃত অ্যাকাউন্ট

“I felt like sometimes she didn’t want me born. I was like Cinderella—even though I was a dude. She blamed me for everything."pic.twitter.com/snibUQgKLz

“I’m what they call ‘ethnically ambiguous,’ so I get a lot of work as a background actor. I’m playing a ‘parkgoer’ today. It’s my 25th..."pic.twitter.com/WFdNerZnKH

“When the last kid left for college, it came to a point where it was just pretense. And I couldn’t hide it anymore. I was tired of..."pic.twitter.com/1VPFQzydAA

“My mom has been really sick for 50 to 60 percent of my life. She had a nervous breakdown when my father left, and she ended up in..."pic.twitter.com/Y51ZQh3n0A

“I teach English at a community college in Queens. I love the job, but I hate grading papers. I’d prefer to just have one continuous..."pic.twitter.com/YSq3D1cPK1

“My father wants me to come home to Botswana. He tells me that he’s getting older and he needs me to come home. I miss my family..."pic.twitter.com/EcueeY9A40

“I was first exposed to ballet at the age of seven when a traveling company came to my church in North Carolina. By the time I..."pic.twitter.com/wkeLsCv0VT

“My parents are old school. We’re from Bolivia. The daughter isn’t supposed to leave the house until she’s married. But I left when I..."pic.twitter.com/a7sNaHGbeC

“I’m scared to go back to work. I just called out my boss in front of a large group of people. I just wouldn’t let it go. I should..."pic.twitter.com/9I3sM8XYRS

"I'm not sure if people have become less interesting, or if I'm just less interested in people."pic.twitter.com/yzd6hecsXI

“I come from Ghana. I’m always smiling. People ask me: ‘Isaac, why are you always smiling?' I tell them: ‘What else can I do?’ I am..."pic.twitter.com/MNcGqaDpPD

“We’ve been together for twenty years. I’ve never dated anyone else. But there’s no intimacy. There’s no ring on the finger. He doesn’t..."pic.twitter.com/QqhTs7gP1z

“We didn’t expect to be raising our granddaughter. We used to talk about moving to the country when we retired. Now we talk about..."pic.twitter.com/wS6OqkKKc9

“I grew up in the suburbs. I used to think that I could write a prescription for a poor man: ‘Get a job, save your money, pull..."pic.twitter.com/brFn14S6KU

“All the bosses care about is getting the job done. So if you have a good work ethic, the work falls on you more. The bosses..."pic.twitter.com/gY7EztLyRY

“My ninety-year-old mother just moved in with us. So I’ve become a full time caretaker. I’m all she’s got. My father passed away and..."pic.twitter.com/WXk1Zx2w3l

“This was supposed to be a regular “hi mom” visit. It was my first time coming home in five years. I was expecting my mother to pick..."pic.twitter.com/DES04KNXAt

“I’ve been on my own since the age of twelve. My mom decided that her drug-dealing boyfriend was more important than me."pic.twitter.com/e4TWKhMH1H

“My grandmother got me a violin when I was thirteen. Whenever people were fighting, and I wanted to get away, I’d just go in my..."pic.twitter.com/8ZCJ0srdq4

“I fostered thirteen little babies in my life. It’s just a passion I have in my heart. Often they’d just come wrapped in a blanket."pic.twitter.com/hj09yxhgVB