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Life Stories (page 3)

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

Members of the Jewish diaspora of Edmonton gather during a candlelight vigil and community-wide Havdalah ceremony to mark the one-week anniversary of the Hamas terror attack in Israel, on October 9, 2023, in Westridge Field, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Grieving together, and also apart

Ariella Cook-Shonkoff

Conchiglie pasta with pumpkin stuffing (Getty Images/VICUSCHKA)

7 chef-approved squash recipes

David Watsky - Institute of Culinary Education

Young women having a party in an apartment (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

How to survive your heartbreak years

Chatbot writing, concept (Getty Images/Jorg Greuel)

Will AI be the death of the writer?

Freddie Mercury's crown and accompanying cloak, in fake fur, red velvet and rhinestones, made by his friend and costume designer Diana Moseley are displayed during a photocall at Sotheby's auction house for the unveiling of Freddie Mercury's entire private collection ahead of an exhibition and six dedicated sales in London, United Kingdom on August 03, 2023. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Auctioning Freddie Mercury's belongings

Lori Tucker-Sullivan

Photos of Jamie Jo Hoang as a child (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of author/Getty Images)

How I kicked my assimilation habit

An urn, some receipts and invoice letters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My parents died. It's a whole second job

The Harriott II, a riverboat, remains docked on August 8, 2023, on the Alabama riverfront in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. Three people have now been charged in the large fight on floating dock Saturday that was captured on video by numerous spectators. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images)

Damn right, I come from Alabama

Historical photo of Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana (Getty Images/Bettmann)

My dad's bittersweet hospital homecoming

Wendy Chin-Tanner

Two Roads Diverged (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

"Am I gay?" Embracing change in midlife

Melissa Giberson

Vishaun Lawrence of Jamaica, a new U.S. citizen, holds and American flag along with her citizenship papers as she participates in a naturalization ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center on July 3, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

My new US citizenship: It's complicated

Jackdaw Crow on a Bird Feeder (Getty Images/David Pardoe)

With age come birds

The author's mother holding a bar of Saboun Nabulsi. (Photo courtesy of the author)

Searching for home in a bar of soap

Drag Queens Kelly K, left, and Scalene OnixXx read story book on the last Drag Queen story hour at Canyon Crest Town Centre location of Cellar Door Bookstore on Saturday, April 29, 2023 in Riverside, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Drag queens don't traumatize my kids

Views of waterway surrounded by reeds, from Norfolk Coast path National Trail near Burnham Overy Staithe, East Anglia, England, UK. (Getty Images/Andrew Michael/Universal Images Group)

In praise of flat places

Anti-fascists and members of Stand Up To Racism demonstrate against the Patriotic Alternative protest at the Tate Britain, Drag Queen Story Hour UK events at the gallery. (Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

It's the Satanic Panic all over again

The author and his daughter (Photo courtesy of author)

Fatherhood, fear and our family gifts

Transgender Flag Graduation Cap (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My trans daughter's 18 States of America

Jim Berg (author) in front of the Supreme Court on the weekend of the March, 1987 (Photo courtesy of the author)

Geraldo outed me on national television

WW2 army portrait of Merrill Stern (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of the Rozsa Family/Getty Images)

My WW2 veteran uncle's last words to me

Donna Summer performs in concert in Santa Rosa on August 17, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/WireImage/Getty Images)

The Donna Summer song of my silent grief

Martha Greenwald

Woman drives her car down a desert road, looking off into the distance (Getty Images/AscentXmedia)

Becoming a mother at 50

Woman bathing in a hot spring (Getty Images/Jesus Sierra)

Naked with strangers, finally unafraid

The author with her husband Kyle and their son Benjamin. (Photo courtesy of the author)

The power of radical forgiveness

Lindsey Rogers-Seitz

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