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Life Stories

Vibrators ruined my love life

Rachel Kramer Bussel

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-596689p1.html'>Brent Hofacker</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Measure of my manhood

Mychal Denzel Smith

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-859897p1.html'>Irina Pestova</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Hiding my freckles

Sarah Tomlinson

A photo of the author, circa 1982.

Let's talk about dying

Lillian B. Rubin

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I was bad Santa

Nicholas Garnett

A photo of the author's father.

My father, the bank robber

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-281098p1.html'>filmfoto</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1314210'>hjalmeida</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Our faith-free Christmas

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-507955p1.html'>Igor Zh.</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Parenting for the apocalypse

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(iStockphoto/olgaecat)

Curse of my birthing hips

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-54233p1.html'>Aaron Kohr</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My fear of flying

Anne Lamott (Sam Lamott)

I'm cuckoo, but hope is coming

Adam Mansbach

My bizarre bestseller year

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=410489'>basslinegfx</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

I went on a freaking cruise

Better than actual porn!

Tracy Clark-Flory

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-944647p1.html'>Mike Elliott</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

She's fat, and I'm not

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-730744p1.html'>isak55</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My big, strong, manly hands

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-160669p1.html'>andrea michele piacquadio, </a><a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-287881p1.html'>Aaron Amat</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Google broke my heart

Shirley Vernick

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-345763p1.html'>Gemenacom</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Men who made my legs

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-334180p1.html'>Gelpi</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-64885p1.html'>Cheryl E. Davis</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Keep your comments off my baby

The author with his wife, Lucy (Studio Laguna)

I was a "male spinster"

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My sweet threesome

(iStockphoto/Savany)

The patient I couldn't heal

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-52959p1.html'>Piotr Marcinski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My roommate ruined my life

Christie Grotheim

(AP/Michael Schmelling)

Porn is a civil right!

Tracy Clark-Flory

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