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Life Stories (page 581)

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

(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My lover, my client

Cary Tennis
A pre-game ceremony honoring the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings at Fenway Park, April 20, 2013. (Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi)

We would have been right there

Ron Currie Jr.
Jason Collins (AP/Michael Dwyer)

Black -- and gay -- like me

Rob Smith

Associated Press
Tennessee Rep. John Ragan (Rep. John Ragan)

Katie McDonough
(YouTube)

Katie McDonough
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=5180776'>JoKMedia</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Rapists shouldn't be fathers

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Kwaku Alston/SI)

Twitter cheers Jason Collins

Katie McDonough
(Kwaku Alston/Sports Illustrated)

Katie McDonough

It wasn't the "vaginocracy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mount Everest

Associated Press
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

I'm doing my ex again -- why?

Cary Tennis
A photo of the author's son.

"Didn't you get tested?"

Rachel Adams
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Allegory and "Life of Pi"

Arne de Boever - LA Review of Books
Scene still from "To the Wonder"

Jay Michaelson - Religion Dispatches
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-267988p1.html'>PerseoMedusa</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Do atheists need a church?

Katie Engelhart
The remains of a fertilizer plant burn after an explosion at the plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas early April 18, 2013. (Reuters)

What happened in West, Texas

Theodoric Meyer - ProPublica

Martha Rosenberg - Alternet

When she wants sex more

Tracy Clark-Flory

Michael Pollan: Sexist pig?

Emily Matchar
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-189085p1.html'>Benko Zsolt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Plastic surgery after the baby

Pearl Murphy
Scene still from "High on the Job"

Amanda Pike - The I Files
Gwyneth Paltrow needs her organic wine, and she needs it now.

The world according to GOOP

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw - The Daily Dot
(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Salon Staff
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