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'Torn Lives': Pictures with missing pieces (images)

Tumblr photo blog asks viewers to submit torn or cut pictures and add a touch of poetic text. Here's a sampling.

Edward Moyer
Edward Moyer is a senior editor at CNET and a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world. He enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. ¶ For nearly a quarter of a century, he's edited and written stories about various aspects of the technology world, from the US National Security Agency's controversial spying techniques to historic NASA space missions to 3D-printed works of fine art. Before that, he wrote about movies, musicians, artists and subcultures.
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The only one

Torn Lives, a photo blog on Tumblr, asks viewers to submit torn or cut photos and provide a line of text to "complete" the picture. This "assignment" yields a variety of results, with some participants taking a hint from blog PostSecret and submitting confessions or secrets of some sort (as here...
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2 of 6 Torn Lives

This guy

...and here).
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3 of 6 Torn Lives

The man torn out of the picture

Sometimes people submit photos they seem to have been pondering for years.
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4 of 6 Torn Lives

Sword fight

Other pictures seem more recent.
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Anything

The visual treatment of the pictures can be quite different, with some handled in an unexpected way.
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6 of 6 Torn Lives

Finally

And some of the pictures seem to have been taken specifically for the blog, with varying levels of effectiveness.

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