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

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Stop excluding people with disabilities

Gabriela Serrato Marks
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Trevor George
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A borderline intimate education

J. Munroe
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Why introverts can be leaders

Peter O'Connor, Andrew Spark - The Conversation
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Ties that bind

Harriet Fraad, Richard D. Wolff - Alternet
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Your doctor can't help you shed pounds

Jennifer Kraschnewski - The Conversation
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Infection lapses rampant in nursing home

Jordan Rau - KFF Health News
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Arkansas spurns warehousing of students

Heather Vogell - ProPublica
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A bluesy winter night in New York

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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What thin people don’t get about dieting

Traci Mann, A. Janet Tomiyama - The Conversation
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Here’s how to avoid outliving your bones

Emily Atkinson
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Best of 2017: This little light

Spencer Porter
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The loneliness of expat life

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
FILE - In this June 26, 2012, file photo, two women converse in New York. "Socially accepted normal body weight is shifting toward heavier weight. As more people around us are getting heavier, we simply believe we are fine, and no need to do anything with it," said Dr. Jian Zhang, a public health researcher at Georgia Southern University and the lead author in a study released on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) (AP)

Why is obesity getting worse?

Kenneth Cusi - The Conversation
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Preyed upon by a Hollywood director

Ainsley McWha
Kelly Marie Tran (AP/Jordan Strauss)

Why the alt-right fears unfeminine women

Nicole Karlis
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U.S. drug prices defy economics

Julie Appleby - KFF Health News
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Words that defined us in 2017

Kate Yoder - Grist
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Can #MeToo survive its own success?

Jim Sleeper
This Oct. 16, 2016, photo shows Nabisco’s booth at an annual dietitians' conference, where company representatives explained the health benefits of their products. The presence of major food companies underscored the conflict-of-interest issues in the nutrition field. (AP Photo/Candice Choi) (AP)

The end of "diet wizards"

David Prologo - The Conversation
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Best of 2017: The mothering class

TaraShea Nesbit
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The legend of Big Chicken

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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The Reagan era and "The Wonder Years"

Terence Mickey - Memory Motel
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What Kwanzaa means

Frank Dobson - The Conversation
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