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

New England Patriots linebacker Junior Seau smiling during NFL football training camp in Foxborough, Mass. Seau, a star linebacker for 20 seasons who made 11 Pro Bowls, committed suicide in 2012. (AP)

"The NFL killed my father"

Steve Almond

Carrie Weisman - Alternet
(AP/W.A. Harewood)

Bill Cosby's undone legacy

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Donald Trump, Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

"Daily Show" classics

Colin Gorenstein
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 18, 2007 file photo, customers look at an image of Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui broadcast on NBC Nightly News in a local restaurant in Blacksburg, Va. Cho mailed a package to NBC that contained photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity laced tirade. While mass killing incidents seize public attention, there's far less focus on the serious, systemic problems besetting America's mental health system, says Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta) (AP)

David Crary
Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

Stewart auctions off suits

Colin Gorenstein
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=9066519'>GenNealPhoto</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Here's why you're blocked

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hulk Hogan (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)

Hogan backpedals on apology

Colin Gorenstein
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Oliver on criminal justice

Colin Gorenstein
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Tempura#f5af0ad'>Tempura</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

What if I need painkillers?

Leslie Kendall Dye
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/mygueart'>mygueart</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Emily Lindin - The Daily Dot
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1821563p1.html'>Erlo Brown</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My week at naked mountain hut

Mark Haskell Smith
(Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)

Amazon ruined our "gayborhood"

Katie Herzog
Caitlyn Jenner (AP/Chris Pizzello)

"I Am Cait" is vital advocacy

Jenny Kutner

Kate Tuttle - DAME
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/sealine#384241'>sealine</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

“Now that’s a Jewish face!”

Judy Brown
The Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Next up: Summer Olympics!

Juliana Barbassa
(Jeff Malet, maletphotos.com/Reuters/AP/Patrick Semansky)

The religious have gone insane

Jeffrey Tayler
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=123598'>MHJ</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Terrell Jermaine Starr - Alternet
(provided by Dustin Grinnell)

My terrifying Kilimanjaro hike

Dustin Grinnell
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/nmonckton#1dfd76c5'>nmonckton</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-68500p1.html'>Stephen Rees</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Pseudo-science & Bible-beating

Wesley Yiin
Jeff Bridges as The Dude, in "The Big Lebowski" (Gramercy Pictures)

What's too stoned to drive?

Dr David Casarett
The Dairy Queen restaurant in downtown Moorhead, Minn. The store first opened in 1949. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack) (AP)

Dave Kolpack
A photo of the author's mother.

My mother is dying right now

George Hodgman
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