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Life Stories (page 19)

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

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A C-section saved my life, and my baby’s

Elizabeth Noll
Dancers (Getty/best-photo)

The last time I danced

Rachel Leah
(Salon Talks)

Why I'm never leaving the hood

D. Watkins
"All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir" by Erin Lee Carr (Penguin Random House/Stephanie Geddes)

Erin Lee Carr on her moment of reckoning

Erin Keane
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How to engage with the "trash" discourse

D. Watkins
"Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type" by Paul D. Tieger; "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain (Broadway Books/Little, Brown Spark)

The book that changed Susan Cain's life

Terence Mickey
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Please don't hug me

D. Watkins
Firefighters place the body of a third victim of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion on a cart at New York's Bellevue Hospital, March 14, 1970. (AP Photo/TC)

The fire angels of Avenue B

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Old Rusty Car (Getty Images/ethanfink)

Growing up poor, with shaming looks

Dave Patterson
Nirvana performs live at The Roxy in Hollywood, CA on August 15, 1991. (AP/Kevin Estrada)

I'm not like them, but I can pretend

Aaron Burch
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Wearing someone else's scrubs

Mary Laura Philpott
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Life after fundamentalist Christianity

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
Gold Dress (Getty/cunfek)

Quinceañera with baby fever

Jennifer Givhan
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Getting sober alone in a yurt

Julia Bainbridge
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A normal American girl—except no dating

Ayser Salman
"No Happy Endings: A Memoir" by Nora McInerny Purmort (Dey Street Books/Brandon Werth)

Nora McInerny on life in "Trauma Town"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Please don't invite me over to dinner

D. Watkins
Israeli West Bank barrier (Getty/Thomas Coex)

Border walls aren't about security

Anthony David
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One month off the grid in Sri Lanka

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
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None of this was supposed to happen yet

Savannah Sipple
Land's End (Getty/tsafreer)

630-mile hike with nothing left to lose

Erin Keane
German Nazis riding in a convoy of motorcars invade Prague as people line the streets and watch silently in the rain and sleet on March 15, 1939 during the Czech German Occupation. (AP Photo)

Our fathers escaped the Holocaust

Joanie Holzer Schirm
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Clarity, halfway around the world

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
Jesse Jackson Jr., walks with his mother, Jacqueline lavinia Brown, as he leaves the US District Court in Washington, DC, August 14, 2013, following a sentencing hearing. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

A mother's letters to her son in prison

Jacqueline L. Jackson
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