Who are you outside this classroom?

I asked my students, "who are you outside this classroom?" Can of worms... opened! They shared revealing and heart wrenching stories about loss, friendship, family, disease, addiction, recovery, war, family violence, pets etc. In theory, there is continuing/consistency and fluidity in "who and what I am," although today the practice was a lot harder than I expected. Telling little anecdotes are one thing, what to do when students give me and their classmates a more deep window into their lives - quite another?