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Life Stories (page 743)

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

Steve Kornacki childhood photo (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

The coming out story I never thought I'd write

Steve Kornacki
(<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-109192p1.html">David Royal Hanson</a> <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-306199p1.html'>nando viciano</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

How PTSD took over America

Alice Karekezi
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain (Larry Downing / Reuters)

Herman Cain doesn't eat "sissy" pizza

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_State_University_monument_outside_Beaver_Stadium.jpg">David Royal Hanson</a>)

When a sex scandal shames an idyllic hometown

Laura Secor
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(AP/Paul Vathis)

Sandusky admits showering, denies sex with kids

Matt Zoller Seitz
Protesters sit with arms linked on New York's Brooklyn Bridge before police began making arrests on Oct. 1 and author Natasha Lennard.

Why I quit the MSM

Natasha Lennard
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My blind musician friend is a real downer

Cary Tennis

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Katie Roiphe (Deborah Copaken Kogan/<a href="http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/assets/images/Authors/RoipheKatie.jpg">Little, Brown</a>)

Katie Roiphe still doesn't get sexual harassment

Irin Carmon

The mean girl I can't forget

Sue Sanders
(<a href='http://www.zachtrenholm.com'>Zach Trenholm</a>/Salon)

I'm a good singer filled with self-doubt

Cary Tennis

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(Courtesy of the author)

My shameful military pregnancy

Bethany Saros
(iStockphoto/gioadventures)

Tracy Clark-Flory

The controversial science of free will

Hannah Tepper

The 38-year-old relationship virgin

Erin Auerbach
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Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines celebrates his victory over Shane Mosley of the U.S. after the WBO welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 7, 2011. (Steve Marcus / Reuters)

Finally, an Asian who packs a punch

Thea Lim
Mike McQueary

Tracy Clark-Flory
Nicole Evans of My Goose Lily (<a href="http://www.tstopphoto.com/">Tamra Tiemeyer</a>)

Felisa Rogers
New York's Belle Harbor neighborhood, after the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 on Nov. 12, 2001. (AP/New York Police Department)

Patrick Smith
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Police hold back students after they reacted off campus Nov. 10, 2011, in State College, Pa., to firing of football coach Joe Paterno. (AP/Matt Rourke)

The shame of Penn State

Allen Barra
(Zach Trenholm/Salon)

My daughter's baby mama called in the lawyers

Cary Tennis

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Stephen King. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Three cheers for Stephen King!

Emma Mustich
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