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Life Stories (page 386)

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

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Jenny Chu - Substance.com
Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in "Heavenly Creatures" (Miramax)

Our scary creative friendship

Racheline Maltese

Welcome to reality-TV porn

Tracy Clark-Flory
A still from the movie "Enter the Void" of a DMT hallucination. (IFC Films)

True secrets of psychedelics

Nathan A. Thompson

"Flame covered his whole head"

Austin Sarat
Neil deGrasse Tyson (AP/Frank Micelotta)

Science doesn't tell us all

Marcelo Gleiser
Diego Maradona of Argentina (AP/Carlo Fumagalli)

Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost
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I learned not to ask for help

Laura Bogart
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The army nearly ruined me

Kathleen Kilcup
(NASA)

Sarah Wolfe - GlobalPost
Ray Charles (AP/Barbara Crownover)

The long shadow of gospel

Noah Berlatsky

Martha Rosenberg - Alternet

Cox: "I’m just a vessel"

Katie McDonough
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Prachi Gupta
(AP/Heather Leiphart)

A nod to "reparative therapy"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jake Lacy and Jenny Slate in "Obvious Child"

A revolutionary fairy tale

Katie McDonough
Kim Brooks (ABC News)

Prachi Gupta

A "lighthearted" photo fail

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Timothy McGrath - GlobalPost
In this Saturday, May 31, 2014 photo, rescue workers take a stabbing victim to the ambulance in Waukesha, Wis. (AP/Abe Van Dyke)

Miles Klee - The Daily Dot
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California isn't banning sex!

Tracy Clark-Flory
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Prachi Gupta
Melissa McCarthy (AP/John Shearer)

Can the A list go plus-size?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Screenshot/Late Night with Seth Meyers)

Sarah Gray
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