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Life Stories (page 24)

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

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Let us now praise idle hands

Lisa Wells
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Birdwatching with my mother

Cathie Borrie
"The Trigger: Narratives of the American Shooter" by Daniel J. Patinkin (Arcade Publishing/Shutterstock)

Inside the mind of an "American Shooter"

Daniel J. Patinkin
The watch given to the author by his grandfather (courtesy of the author)

What a pre-moon Speedy watch is worth

John Kaag
Looking toward the Grand Teton from the summit of the Middle Teton (Getty Images)

Facing death on the mountain

Signe Pike
The author's parents (courtesy of the author)

Married at 15, or How he met my mother

Erin Keane
A family photo of Vida Wayne (courtesy of the author)

Vida Wayne vanished, in $250K in jewels

David London
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Confessions of a "FailMom"

Lori Barrett
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Running an ultramarathon on bloody feet

Catra Corbett, with Dan England
The author at the Conundrum hot springs outside Aspen Colorado (courtesy of the author)

Hidden from the news cycle and healed

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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She's the breadwinner and OK with it

Amy Gesenhues
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At 57, I traded my bicycle for a Harley

Linda Crill
A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
The author's family in Nelson Lakes National Park, New Zealand. (Raj Gill)

How to travel the world with little kids

Raj Gill
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/akindo#16cd7277'>akindo</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Using research skills to self-diagnose

Ashley Best
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A very much not New York pizza recipe

Julia Bainbridge
"Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret" by Pamela Everett (Skyhorse Publishing)

My family's secret true crime story

Pamela Everett
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Syria: A homeland I've never seen

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
"This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Díaz (Getty/Mark Wilson/Riverhead Books)

This is how you lose Junot Díaz

Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo
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Looking for Philip Roth in Central Park

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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TED Talks in prison

Jim Taylor
The small city of Hazard, Ky., shown Tuesday, May 26, 2015, nestled in the heart of the coal fields of Appalachia and is at the heart of an injection drug use problem in the region. Public health officials warn if the region doesn't get the problem under control, it's likely to see a Hepatitis C or HIV outbreak. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Native identity erased from Appalachia

M.W. Flash Clark - 100 Days In Appalachia

My $7,500 kombucha addiction

Amanda Medress
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Set screen rules that stick

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
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