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Life Stories (page 248)

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

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Abortion is pro-life

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Patriotism is for winners

Scott Timberg
Katy Perry, John Mayer (AP/Richard Shotwell/Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Our rom-com reality

Erin Coulehan
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It's not about "PC"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Oliver (HBO)

Oliver takes on 15 topics

Colin Gorenstein
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My sexless soul mate

Brian McGuigan

Kate Tuttle - DAME
(AP/Walik Goshorn)

I am Miley's mother. And lover

Phyllis Grant
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Why all don't believe in God

Lala Stone
Billy Procida

Talking with the "Manwhore"

Jenny Kutner
(Courtesy of Florian Rabeau)

Smells like dead loved ones

Joanna Rothkopf
Taylor Stevens (Penguin Random House/Alyssa Skyes)

The cult of my childhood

Taylor Stevens
Ruby, Stella, Kathryn and Bryan Harvey (Richmond Times Dispatch)

The Harvey family murder

Steven L. Jones
A photo of the author's mother

Is smart better than pretty?

Patricia Park
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"The perfect wolf"

Carl Safina
Glenn Beck (Fox News)

5 years ago today

Colin Gorenstein
(Wikimedia)

Two cheers for the Declaration

Andrew O'Hehir
Michelle Obama, Angela Davis (AP/Susan Walsh/Reuters/Mark Blinch)

Strong. Black. Woman.

Tamara Winfrey Harris
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My scary side of parenting

Dawn Turzio
Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina fill the streets near downtown New Orleans, Aug. 30, 2005 (AP/David J. Phillip)

Katrina, 10 years later

Cynthia Joyce

A sex writer's greatest hits

Tracy Clark-Flory
Lt. Samuel Battle gets a kiss from his granddaughter Yvonne, at City Hall in New York, Sept. 4, 1941. (AP)

New York's first black cop

Arthur Browne
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Summer will kill us all

Joanna Rothkopf
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Trolling the dude-bro Internet

Matt Saccaro
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