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Life Stories (page 22)

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

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The Great American Dream Value Menu

Harrison Scott Key
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church stage a protest across the street from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church

Libby Phelps, Sara Stewart
Abortion rights activists cheer after the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law placing restrictions on abortion clinics, outside of the Supreme Court on June 27, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

My relief after my abortion isn't rare

Lindy West
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Can I spend my way out of my anxiety?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Eat Cake. Be Brave." by Melissa Radke (Grand Central Publishing/Kylie White)

Infertility and emotional infidelity

Melissa Radke
Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade

How Erin Maye Quade flipped a seat blue

Lauren Schiller
(Howie Sonneschein)

The secret history of the swimming pigs

T.R. Todd
In this Oct. 9, 1999 file photo a cross made of stones rests below the fence in Laramie, Wyo. where gay University of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was beaten and left for dead. (AP/Ed Andrieski)

A letter from Laramie, 1998

Lily Burana
Dr. James P. Allison (AP/Richard Drew)

I was the new Nobel winner's lab rat

Mary Elizabeth Williams
V.S. Naipaul; Paul Theroux (AP)

V.S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and me

Jane Tompkins
Kathleen Turner (AP/Evan Agostini)

What Kathleen Turner learned from soaps

Kathleen Turner, Dustin Morrow
A Specialist of Lehman Brothers works his post on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Sept. 15, 2008 (AP/David Karp)

Working for Lehman Bros. as it collapsed

Alex Sienaert
David Hogg and other demonstrators lie on the floor at a Publix Supermarket in Coral Springs, Fla., May 25, 2018. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)

Our kids have no idols, and that's good

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before an NFL football game. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez))

A veteran’s wife on Kaepernick and Nike

Lily Burana
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My date with a 1985 Chateau d'Yquem

Dawn Drzal
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Labor Day tribute to restaurant workers

Hannah Howard
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A transgender Army bride in the '80s

Brian Belovitch
Inmates work on staining cabinet doors at the Habitat for Humanity Prison Build at the Ionia Correctional Facility in Ionia, Mich. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

Inmate's guide to earning 24 cents/hour

Michael Fischer
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I'm not running scared

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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I quit the Catholic church

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"The Devoted: A Novel" by Blair Hurley (W. W. Norton & Company/Andrea Stenson)

Yiddish Club helped me survive 8th grade

Blair Hurley
An American flag flies in St. Bernard, La. Sept. 17, 2005. (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Searching for Katrina survivors

J. Malcolm Garcia
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College-bound after a brush with death

Mary Elizabeth Williams
HIV-positive patients attend a class at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, June 26, 2003. (AP/Themba Hadebe)

Life and death in Botswana

Daniel Baxter
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