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Photograph of Isak Leib (Jacob) Engler, the author's great grandfather (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Zoe Zolbrod)

Discovering my family's Holocaust deaths

Zoe Zolbrod
Black color vintage key with hard shadow on yellow background (Getty Images/DBenitostock)

Secret abortions for conservative women

Leah Hampton
Female friends taking selfie with smart phone while sitting at bar (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Notes on becoming a "regular"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Members of the public queue along the South Bank of the River Thames, opposite the Palace of Westminster, as they wait in line to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II (MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

An American in the queen's funeral queue

Jason Kyle Howard
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The author (left) with his father and son, on a visit to his native village in Sudan, circa 2000. (Courtesy of Mohammad Ali Salih)

The British built my elementary school

Mohammad Ali Salih
Woman sleeping on bench in airport (Getty Images/Jakob Helbig)

Please tell me about your delayed flight

Sarah Hunter Simanson
A courier delivers a food order to a customer (Getty Images/Georgijevic)

I got hooked on Uber Eats — as a driver

Margaret Dodge
Hospital bed in the hallway (Getty Images/David Sacks)

In the hospital, with no staff in sight

D. Watkins
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Businessman standing on beach looking at sky (Getty Images/Mark Langridge)

Can Western "culture" survive its myths?

Richard Eckersley
Rorschach Inkblot Test (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

My father, the Rorschach test

Anne Lazare
A military transport plane flies over as Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Getty Images/MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Seven children dead: Who's to blame?

Jeremy Collins
Yellow Corn For Sale At Market Stall (Getty Images/Noam Cohen/EyeEm)

Looking for love and finding elote

Ashlie D. Stevens
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A girl lays flowers at a makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 28, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

As a teacher educator, I feel hopeless

Christina Wyman
A registered nurse prepares to administer an intradermal monkeypox vaccine to a person at a vaccination site setup in Tropical Park by Miami-Dade County and Nomi Health on August 15, 2022 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Monkeypox and polio, on top of COVID?

D. Watkins
Condiments in bottles (Getty Images/Johner Images)

My condiments for a cross-country move

Maggie Hennessy
Stressed exhausted mother (Getty Images/Halfpoint Images)

Is this the worst time to be a mom?

Nicole Karlis
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Concept of love (Getty Images/SvetaZi)

A humble, not cool defense of monogamy

Nell Beram
The Jetson family wave as they fly past buildings in space in their spaceship in a still from the animated television series, 'The Jetsons,' circa 1962. (Warner Bros./Courtesy of Getty Images)

Why I wish George Jetson happy birthday

D. Watkins
Valencian Figurita Pidgeon (Getty Images/Richard Bailey)

Pet pigeons teach lessons in letting go

E.B. Bartels
Woman at desk surrounded in adhesive notes, head in hands (Getty Images/Henrik Sorensen)

My emotional labor while writing a novel

Lauren Forsythe
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The very '90s history of flavored lattes

Maggie Hennessy - Food52
Surgeons in Scrubs and Protective Masks Look Down at a Patient on a Hospital Trolley (Getty Images/Janie Airey)

Doctors lost an organ inside of me

Sarah Hunter Simanson
Small siblings covering their ears while refusing to listen their parents arguing in dining room (Getty Images/skynesher)

Going childfree to stop the abuse cycle

Christina Wyman
Broken Glasses on the Ground (Getty Images/SEInnovation)

What do we owe a bleeding stranger?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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