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Life Stories (page 18)

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

Valerie Jarrett (Salon Talks)

Valerie Jarrett's leap of faith

D. Watkins
John Mayer, Bill Kreutzman and Bob Weir of Dead & Company (Getty/Theo Wargo)

How a Deadhead goes home

Amy Cuddy
(Getty/hoozone)

"My darling boy, my moon and stars"

Chris Gabbard
(Getty/RichLegg)

My dad's job loss taught me resilience

Susan Jane Gilman
The last eight survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force plane crash in the Andes in South America, huddle together in the craft's fuselage on their final night before rescue on Dec. 22, 1972. (AP Photo)

Returning to the scene of the crash

Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano
(Getty/Salon)

Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona

Erin Keane
(Getty/tuncaycetin)

Fast cars and guitars with women's names

Megan Volpert
Meaghan Mulholland and Alex Trebek (Courtesy of the Author)

Alex Trebek really does have the answers

Meaghan Mulholland
Ray Gootz (Alex Valderana)

Losing my virginity at 37

Ray Gootz
Participants in the 19th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride March make their way down New York’s Fifth Avenue, Sunday, June 26, 1988, New York. (AP/Mario Cabrera)

On allies, angels and Stonewall at 50

Brian Perrin
Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck, of Fredricksburg, Va., right, and Sophia Elwood, 7, the daughter of Peck's fiancee, place an American flag on one of the names inscribed at the south reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, July 4, 2014. (AP/Tina Fineberg)

The story of my new arms

John Peck, Dava Guerin, Terry Bivens
"My Favorite Murder;" "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" by Balli Kaur Jaswal; "The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters" by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Wikimedia/Harper Collins)

A murder podcast helped me write again

Balli Kaur Jaswal
(Getty/oleg66)

Dance class made me the man I am today

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

Pete Holmes on comedy, sex and God

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/demaerre)

"Therapy is for white people"

D. Watkins
Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten Glezman (Getty/Salon)

The belief that burns in me

Silas House

A physicist's revelation about religion

Terence Mickey
Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in "Room" (A24)

Mourning my mother and reading "Room"

Rachel Mack
(Getty/Rhona Wise)

Toxic masculinity, our chronic illness

Erin Keane
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand; Libertarian stickers that were handed out are seen at the National Libertarian Party Convention, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP/John Raoux/Signet)

My regrettable libertarian romance

David Masciotra
"Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race" by Lara Prior-Palmer (Catapult/Salon)

The unlikely winner of the toughest race

Erin Keane
(Getty/chickaz)

The working poor in the Hamptons

Jason Allen
(Getty/IPGGutenbergUKLtd)

Plight of hoop stars who don’t go pro

D. Watkins
Open bible in church (Getty/coldsnowstorm)

My priest was an accused abuser

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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