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Life Stories

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My sister's perfect life

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His adoption secret

Jennifer D. Munro

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Remodeling will tear us apart

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If this is my final tweet

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My book was a bad idea

Corinne Purtill

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All my parenting mistakes

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#1 Thomas Rogers in the world

Jesse Metzger (r.) in "I Want Your Love." The author is not pictured in this promotional still, which tends to happen when you only have 10 or 12 lines.

My gay art-porn debut

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My "50 Shades" sex party

A picture of the author as a drinker and a smoker and a New Yorker. She is none of those things now. (Tara Copp)

My relapse years

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-11484p1.html'>Tonis Pan</a> and <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-66151p1.html'>James Steidl</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The wedding I almost ruined

Jerome Copulsky

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Anthony Swofford

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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

From left: Charlie MacArthur, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott (WIkipedia/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-54776p1.html"'>Vitaly Korovin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My Dorothy Parker years

Jennifer Wright

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Tales of an almost-mom

I'm a good Mormon wife!

Maren Stephenson

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The author with his friend Chris Hondros, right, who died in Libya in 2011. (Nicole Tung)

How to stop the bleeding

A photo of the author examining bullet holes near the cemetery where his family is buried in Bosnia. (Eldin Trebincevic)

My home, ripped apart

Kenan Trebincevic

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-19p1.html'>Tad Denson</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

My bully, my best friend

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A death that was also a birth

Tova Hinda Siegel

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The bully who asked me out

Jennifer Miller

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-507601p1.html'>Blazej Lyjak</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Our most dangerous hike

(Antique Vibrator Museum)

A night at the vibrator museum

Tracy Clark-Flory

A photo of ferry boat captain Jenny Brown

I'm a ferry boat captain

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