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Life Stories (page 99)

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

In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 photo provided by Ashley Bartyik, her grandparents Wolfram and Anita Gottschalk of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, cry as they say goodbye near the end of a visit with each other in Wolfram's elderly care home in Surrey. The couple, who are in their 80s, were separated into two different care homes a half an hour apart after 62 years of marriage because no beds were available together. (Ashley Bartyik via AP) (AP)

Loneliness isn't terminal

Judith Graham - KFF Health News
(AP/Mel Evans)

Talking politics at work

Sam Wheeler, Leo Gertner - In These Times
(Getty/IPGGutenbergUKLtd)

Better Sex, Safer Sex

Rachel Krantz - The Fresh Toast
Teachers chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Striking teachers in the Buenos Aires province are demanding a wage increase higher than what is currently being offered by the provincial administration. The strike is in its 15th day, affecting more than 3 million students. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) (AP)

Charter school strike!

Jeff Schuhrke - In These Times
(Shutterstock)

Animal cruelty at the Iditarod

Jennifer O'Connor - Alternet
Blondie (Alexander Thompson)

Why Debbie Harry Still Has it

Annie Zaleski
(Reuters/Fred Thornhill)

Trump's immigrant roundup

Kali Holloway - Alternet

the "bachelorette" fiasco

Matthew Sheffield

About "Everything, Everything"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bandy Lee; Donald Trump (Yale/Getty/Mark Wilson)

Trump: Crazy or evil? Or both?

Chauncey DeVega
Fred Trump; Donald Trump (AP/New York Military Academy)

Trump had a bad dad, too

Lucian K. Truscott IV

The joy of grief?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
An unidentified man is stopped by undercover police officers on Third Avenue between 41st and 42nd Street in New York. (Reuters)

unfair at any speed

Seth Sandronsky - Capital & Main
"Master of None" (Netflix)

Empathy in "Master of None"

D. Watkins

Awesome inspiration for grads

Alexandra Clinton
(BillMoyers.com)

What is a moral person?

Sister Joan Chittister - BillMoyers.com
(Getty/knape)

6 food facts

Julien Perry - The Fresh Toast
(Getty/Andrew Rich)

An academic prank falls flat

Émile P. Torres
Richard Collins III, Left (Facebook/Richard Collins III)

White supremacy is deadly

D. Watkins

New script for young offenders

Stephen Talbot
New York Yankees pitcher Jordan Montgomery delivers against the Tampa Bay Rays during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (AP)

why are kids getting injured?

Jason Zaremski - The Conversation
FILE - This frame grab from a March 6, 2017 video provided by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), shows fighters from the SDF opening fire on a position of the Islamic State group in the countryside east of Raqqa, Syria. As the American –backed SDF fighters bear down on Raqqa, the militants have trapped the city’s estimated 300,000 residents to use as human shields, ringing the city with land mines to prevent escape. (Syria Democratic Forces, via AP, File) (AP)

Whistleblowers, moral injury

Peter Van Buren
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-183121p1.html'>Robert Kneschke</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

tech makes life easier

Erin Wilkey Oh - Common Sense Media
(Getty/Golibo/Cosmopolitan)

Best sex advice I never got

Jennifer Kaplan
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