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Life Stories

Gold Dress (Getty/cunfek)

Quinceañera with baby fever

Jennifer Givhan
(Getty/zahariz)

Getting sober alone in a yurt

Julia Bainbridge
(Getty/NicolasMcComber)

A normal American girl—except no dating

Ayser Salman
"No Happy Endings: A Memoir" by Nora McInerny Purmort (Dey Street Books/Brandon Werth)

Nora McInerny on life in "Trauma Town"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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(Getty/PeopleImages)

Please don't invite me over to dinner

D. Watkins
Israeli West Bank barrier (Getty/Thomas Coex)

Border walls aren't about security

Anthony David
(Getty/mihtiander)

One month off the grid in Sri Lanka

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
(Getty/belchonock)

None of this was supposed to happen yet

Savannah Sipple
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Land's End (Getty/tsafreer)

630-mile hike with nothing left to lose

Erin Keane
German Nazis riding in a convoy of motorcars invade Prague as people line the streets and watch silently in the rain and sleet on March 15, 1939 during the Czech German Occupation. (AP Photo)

Our fathers escaped the Holocaust

Joanie Holzer Schirm
(Getty/champlifezy@gmail.com)

Clarity, halfway around the world

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
Jesse Jackson Jr., walks with his mother, Jacqueline lavinia Brown, as he leaves the US District Court in Washington, DC, August 14, 2013, following a sentencing hearing. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

A mother's letters to her son in prison

Jacqueline L. Jackson
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"Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story" by Jacob Tobia (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Oriana Koren)

We all have "a coming-of-gender story"

Rachel Leah
"Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China" by Karoline Kan (Hachette Books)

"Better not become a leftover woman"

Karoline Kan
(Getty/SrdjanPav)

How I became an adventurous woman

Jen Corrigan
"Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family" by Mitchell Jackson (Scribner/John Ricard)

Mitchell Jackson on his "Survival Math"

Rachel Leah
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Women's rights marchers parade down Fifth Avenue in New York in part of a nationwide day of demonstrations for the women's liberation movement, 1970. (AP Photo)

Screw the sisterhood!

Meredith Maran
Jane Austen (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders

Devoney Looser
(Getty/PeopleImages)

40 years ago, I fled South America

Karen Keilt
Ricky Simon punches Rani Yahya during their Bantamweight bout during UFC234 on February 10, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Getty/Quinn Rooney)

Facing 40 and stepping into the MMA ring

Matthew Rozsa
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The California Compassionate Care Network (CCCN) marijuana dispensary's grow operation is one of the stops on the cannabis tour organized by L.A.-based Green Tours, January 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty/Robyn Beck)

The complexities of cannabis

Christy Stillwell
emergency personnel work at the scene of a deadly train derailment in Philadelphia, May 13, 2015. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Healing for two and parenting with PTSD

Jessica Baen
(Getty/Luke_Franzen)

When Valentine's Day means 15 to life

Anthony Papa
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Open adoption reunion

Vanessa McGrady
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