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Life Stories (page 1424)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

Fresh fennel on white, wooden background (Getty Images/Claudia Totir)

Fun with fennel: Was it an ancient contraceptive or just a garnish?

My private Riviera: "Tender Is the Night" transports me to the Côte d'Azur

Post-nup blues: A bride dishes on the day after

Ellie Forgotson

Block that fat! Diet pill for obese might cause some yucky side effects

Flying the queasy skies: Sometimes the turbulence is inside the plane

Elliott Neal Hester

The New Yorker be damned! Two kids and a workshop later, I'm still on my way to literary fame

Guilty pleasures: Why am I becoming a cradle-robbing mama?

Virginia Vitzthum

Down for the count: When the neighbors fight, the kids come running to my house

When diagnosed with cancer I learned: Laugh every day

Midnight at the oasis: Once upon a time in the Sinai desert

Still insatiable: Porn legend Marilyn Chambers makes a steamy comeback

Tight genes: Maybe homosexuality isn't bred in the bone

Nudity: The only real alternative to dressing in a world ruled by Gap, Calvin and Gucci

Without a net: Can a journalist and a trapeze artist leap from erotic acrobatics to marriage?

Donald D. Groff

The big fix: I was an Internet trading junkie

Anne Lamott: A dog's death

See and be unseen: Study shows sunglasses give us confidence

Book bag: More best travel books of the century

Written on flesh: One man's tattoo story -- should it stay or should it go?

When women's soccer needed an icon, Mia Hamm kicked in

Urge: I can't get her toe out of my mind.

Aspirin: For a few, the wonder drug can be deadly

Back to the future: Polly Shulman explores predictions by history's great seers

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