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Life Stories (page 712)

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

A photo of the author, as a baby, with her mother (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85p1.html'>Melissa King</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Finding my mother again

Claire Bidwell Smith
Travelers line up at a TSA checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport. (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Patrick Smith
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

I'm addicted to sexting

Cary Tennis

Their moms were crazy about me

Kimberlee Auerbach Berlin
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The cover of Time magazine

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-171088p1.html'>Antonov Roman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sara Robinson - Alternet

Obama wins Twitter

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Future schlock

Merrill Markoe
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(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

I'm too smart for this job

Cary Tennis
(iStockphoto/NadyaPhoto)

Boobs, a history

Tracy Clark-Flory
David Hind, left, and Craig Francisco dance their first dance after getting married on a cruise hosted by Marriage Equality New York, soon after gay marriage was legalized in the state. (AP/Seth Wenig)

A balm to the soul

Edmund White
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-515545p1.html'>Hofhauser</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

All the time in the world

Wendy MacLeod
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Keaton Fuller

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Amid a stream of confetti, Lindsay Lohan arrives at court in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 20, 2010. (AP/Jason Redmond)

My neighbor, Lindsay Lohan

Susan Josephs
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

I'm rich, privileged and drunk

Cary Tennis

Ernest Callenbach
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus (Rose Lichter Marck)

Dad's 30-year coming out

Gideon Lewis-Kraus
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-169678p1.html'>Loskutnikov</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Hot, naked and pregnant

Megan Rubiner Zinn
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-921176p1.html'>Everett Collection</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Tracy Clark-Flory
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-743p1.html'>PeterG</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My Scientology excommunication

Kate Bornstein
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(AP/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-59234p1.html'>Christopher Penler</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Whole Foods is coming? Buy!

Will Doig

Andrew O'Hehir
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-55212p1.html'>Anatema</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Nobody ever calls me anymore

Sarah Hepola
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-515209p1.html'>Balefire</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Robert M. Hazen
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