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Life Stories (page 309)

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

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How I became homeless

MD Marcus

When guys hear I'm a virgin

Ellen Burkhardt
Chevy Chase in "Christmas Vacation"

Why do I visit my family?

Cathy Ladman - DAME
Pope Francis, Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Dalai Lama (Reuters/AP/Max Rossi/Richard Shotwell/Cathal McNaughton/Photo montage by Salon)

Miles: Science is not enough

Sara Scribner

A frat boy's "gay experience"

Isaac Abel
(Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Salon)

The year in Uber

Anna Silman
Beyonce, Laverne Cox, Emily Watson (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Matilde Campodonico)

Feminism's very strange 2014

Andi Zeisler

Confessions of a secret Muslim

Sarah Harvard
Still from "My Husband's Not Gay" (TLC)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Michael Brown's body is taken to Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. (AP/St. Louis Post Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

"Deader than a roadkill dog"

Joanna Rothkopf
Dov Charney (AP/Reed Saxon)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sandra the orangutan, at Buenos Aires' Zoo, Argentina, Dec. 22, 2014. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Orangutan granted rights

Joanna Rothkopf

I'm having an abortion

Jenny Kutner
Bill O'Reilly (Fox News/Screen montage by Salon)

Make O'Reilly's brain explode

Jeffrey Tayler
Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

"Spiritual Alzheimer's"

Joanna Rothkopf
Bill Cosby (AP/Victoria Will)

Sarah Gray
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My battle against Christmas

Caren Chesler
Valerie Plame (Reuters/Vincent Kessler)

Valerie Plame's post-CIA life

Jonathan Peltz
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The "furries" craze

Paula Young Lee

Lindsey Robertson - The Dodo
Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath (AP)

Plath, Hughes' love letters

Gerald Hughes
(Paramount Pictures)

First we kill premier-elite

Thomas Frank
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-65566p1.html'>StockLite</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My night at the cuddle party

JD Irpino
(AP/Janet Van Ham/Fiona Hanson/Marion Curtis/Photo montage by Salon)

We're going to end religion

Phil Zuckerman
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