Ahh, thank you so much for the kind comments! I appreciate the review :)
The variant on shared memories is nice too, though this game was inspired by a writing exercise I did to get over some emotional difficulties I was having. The idea of having those things burn away in front of people that loved you and supported you even in tender and terrifying intimacy.
I'd love to write up a variant that involves good, shared memories, though! I'd want to tweak the mechanics a little, and create some sort of failsafe so that if someone is new to the group, they aren't automatically excluded, since that would kind of suck.