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

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Why care if I'm gluten free?

Alex Gallo-Brown
A photo of the author

Why I had to win the Rhodes

Julian Brave NoiseCat
Former supermodel Cindy Crawford (Joel Ryan/invision/ap)

Lily Burana - DAME

Patrick Pierce, Hong Sar - Creative Time Reports

Matthew Rozsa - The Good Men Project
Rafia Zakaria (Jeremy Hogan)

My Karachi family's shame

Rafia Zakaria
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What happened to me is normal

Jenny Kutner

Kali Holloway - Alternet
A still from "American Sniper" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Chris Kyle's twisted empathy

Jay Baron Nicorvo

Patrick Pierce, Hong Sar - Creative Time Reports
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street" (Paramount Pictures)

Sex parties of the 1 percent

Tracy Clark-Flory
FILE - In this April 24, 2014 file photo, a variety of healthy fruits and vegetables are displayed for sale at a market in Washington. Drink less sugary soda, but an extra cup of coffee or two is OK. So are eggs. And as always, don’t forget your vegetables. A government advisory committee is recommending the first real limits on added sugars, but backs off stricter ones for salt and cholesterol intake. It calls for an environmentally friendly diet lower in red and processed meats. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal report: Eat less meat

Joanna Rothkopf
(YouTube)

Organic company trolls bros

Joanna Rothkopf
(Wikimedia/<a href='http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/04/oliver-sacks-on-memory-and-plagiarism/'>Maria Popova</a>)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in "Fifty Shades of Grey" (Universal Pictures)

Sarah Gray
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Nestle nixes fake ingredients

Joanna Rothkopf
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Superbug exposure at UCLA

Joanna Rothkopf
Eddie Murphy (NBC)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sad dog (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-540553p1.html'>Funny Solution Studio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Ben Guarino - The Dodo

Bruce E. Levine - Alternet
(AP/Jeff Chiu)

Soda's deadly science

Joanna Rothkopf
(Little Caesars)

New Little Caesars monstrosity

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/Brennan Linsley)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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