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Topic: 10 Best Personal Essays 2015

An Oregon teacher’s letter

Melissa Duclos

Hard lessons in small farming

Jaclyn Moyer

The rise of mother shaming

Kim Brooks

Suppressing my blackness

Priscilla Ward
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My neighbor from hell

Kevin Clouther

Teen Beat ruined me

Sarah Hepola

"I'm not drinking right now"

Meredith Maran

My child is not in heaven

Priscilla Blossom
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I hated not being white

Tom Phan
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