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Life Stories (page 211)

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

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Let's stop lying about Santa

Kathleen Furin
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-79405p1.html'>Annette Shaff</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Holiday kitsch is killing us

Laura Bogart
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-998330p1.html'>Maksym Poriechkin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The Christmas orgasm

Carrie Weisman - Alternet
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Asha Parker
Chelsea Clinton (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

You can be a pro-choice mom

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Patrice Waite
"A Thanksgiving Miracle" sketch on "Saturday Night Live." (NBC)

Adele can't fix everything

Margee Kerr
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-635842p1.html'>Shots Studio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Sandra Bland

Patrice Waite
(Reuters/Scott Morgan)

The real feminism problem

Amanda Marcotte
(Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Asha Parker
(YouTube/UPtv)

Nothing "uplifting" about this

Rachel Kramer Bussel
(AP/Kathy Willens/Shutterstock/Salon)

The right invented war on Xmas

Savannah Cox
(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Steve Marcus)

Fox News' new war on truth

Sophia A. McClennen

Patrice Waite

Lynn Stuart Parramore - Alternet
Donald Trump, left, watches as Ted Cruz speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate. (AP)

Religion is the real problem

Jeffrey Tayler
(HBO)

A less brutal winter is coming

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tina Fey (AP/Rich Fury)

Tina Fey owes no apologies

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"Gadget guilt" could be useful

Scott Timberg

Carrie Weisman - Alternet
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I didn't feel fit to be a mom

Mary T. McCarthy
(Wikimedia)

My ancestors, the cannibals

Melissa Cronin - Narratively
(AP/Susan Walsh)

Evolution of abortion politics

Valerie Tarico
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