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Life Stories (page 1430)

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

Killed by bad handwriting: Your doctor's indecipherable scrawl can put you six feet under

Scent of a lover: The chemicals of attraction

My other mother: How a woman my age raised my kids -- and me

Dangerous sex: A fable of two lovers at an AIDS conference

Virginia Vitzthum

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Vagabonding: Rolf Potts infiltrates the set of "The Beach" -- and gets busted

Do severed heads have rights? Cloning and other ethical conundrums

Outside motherhood looking in: A 28-year-old feels mixed emotions as her friends have babies

Michelle Albert

Porn finale: Jack has his first on-screen sex -- and without Viagra!

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San Francisco romance: A passionate reunion rekindles a resident's love affair

The old men and the C-cups: Hollywood's mania for depicting geezers with improbably young babes

Another Littleton? How a high school's counselors failed my daughter

Kelly Milner Halls

Beating your brains out: Can new exams save boxers from Ali's tragic fate?

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Wanderlust: An American undergrad's erotic tour of Turkey

Sandra J. Goldstein

Travel Advisor: Lisbon lowdown, spa getaways, rare road food, freighter trips

Donald D. Groff

Anne Lamott: Grace turned me into God's transsexual nurse

Trepanation: Can drilling your skull bring bliss?

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"Haunted Traveller": Barry Yourgrau's Borgesian tales of transformation

On not having a daughter By Jayne Anne Phillips An essay from Salon's first book, "Mothers Who Think"

Jayne Anne Phillips

Surreal riches: Four excerpts from "Haunted Traveller"

Throwing up can save your life: Learned taste aversion may be nature's way of keeping us from poison

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The longest hours: Watching Littleton, a mother recalls the horror of waiting to find out if your son is dead

Experts on teenage behavior: What lessons can we learn from Littleton?

Pseudo-menopause: Little-known Sjogren's syndrome dries up women's moisture glands

Out of the Blue: The thief who climbed into the hold of a moving plane and stole $500,000

Elliott Neal Hester

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