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Life Stories (page 1431)

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

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

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

Thanks for the mammaries: A love letter to Pamela Anderson's departed ta-tas

"A razor in my bladder": The incurable agony of interstitial cystitis

Love with strings attached: The pain and passion of being a stepmom

Ways to disappear: Lessons on the Thailand-Burma border

Seedy times: Forget the stained blue dress and "Something About Mary" -- semen is increasingly obsolete

Wanderlust: The sad kinkiness of a B&B's guest log

Fit in or be a freak: Littleton's all-American alienation

Mary Roach: Lip balm addiction -- a tragedy America can no longer gloss over

Endless pain: It changes all the rules

Luanne Armstrong

Sallie Tisdale: The intimacy of strangers

Travel Advisor: Playing it safe in Washington, health insurance abroad, cheap retreats

Donald D. Groff

Flower power: Children's books in full bloom

Book bag: Living in Japan -- the best expatriate books

Doped pedalers: pro cycling is awash in drugs

"Confucius Lives Next Door": How a Chinese sage dominates Japanese culture

My cancer time bomb: Will my teenage smoking come back to kill me?

Christopher Scanlan

Hatred and the American dream: A California suburb searches its soul after two ugly episodes

Vagabonding: Getting stoned with Mr. X in Thailand

The joy of sets: Allegra Goodman on being married to a mathematician

Allegra Goodman

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