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Life Stories (page 1430)

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

Travel Advisor: Renting a Greek villa, European rail passes, currency exchange and timeshare tips

Donald D. Groff

Mysteries of tinnitus: The buzz that almost drove William Shatner to suicide

"Kite Strings of the Southern Cross": A young woman's odyssey of passion and possibility

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

"Kite Strings" excerpt: Watching the Balinese moonrise with a Balinese man

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

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

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

Michelle Albert

Do severed heads have rights? Cloning and other ethical conundrums

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

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?

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?

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

Surreal riches: Four excerpts from "Haunted Traveller"

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

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