This week, Katy Perry made your teenage dreams come true, a resilient New Orleans hit the five-year mark since Katrina, the housing market went down, and your Six-Word Memoirs kept our spirits up. Here are the six six-worders we love from the week ending August 27. Click on each author’s name to check out more memoirs.

Best Wordplay: “Hurt again and again; clicked defriend”—45shoshy
Most Modern: “Family’s worst fears confirmed: I’m metrosexual.” —GabrielJR(profile picture, above)
Most in Need of a Backstory: “Just call me ‘Little Miss Homewrecker’.” —PerfectlyBroken, from SMITHTeens
Most in Need of a Hug: “Cleaning products are my only friends.”
—Engulfedbytheuniverse
Best Therapy Advice: “Came to terms with affair. (Mine.).” —Susan Breeden
Most Universal: “To someone you mean the world.” —Jules96, from our new six-word project, Six Words on Pain & Hope, with the nonprofit, To Write Love on Her Arms.

Plus:
• Make a T-Shirt: over on our shop at Spreadshirt
• Follow us on Twitter for one carefully selected Six-Word Memoir of the Day by our team of extremely human-looking robots.
• Join our Facebook group, which is like one sixy mixer.