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# Summer Confessions: Weight Loss, Finding Love and 11 Other Stories of Change

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## TIME Staff


Aug 20, 2014 2:59 PM UTC

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## TIME Staff


Aug 20, 2014 2:59 PM UTC

Summer is the time for transformation, even if you don’t have a first day of school in your future. We’re not sure why, but for some reason the summer months are when people tend to find love, lose weight and discover new things about themselves. Maybe it’s a leftover impulse from the school year, when everybody wanted to come back in September without braces.

Here are some of the best transformations we found when we asked [Whisper ](http://bit.ly/VEfvQa)users to describe how they’ve changed this summer in just three words.

For more summer transformations and stories, you can find [Whisper](http://bit.ly/VEfvQa) here.

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