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Topic: Life Stories (page 6)

Life Stories

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The safety of my unrequited loves

Elizabeth Ellen
"Don't Let Me Down: A Memoir" by Erin Hosier (Atria Books//Andrew Joseph Segreti)

"You feel thrown to the wolves"

Erin Keane

Men aren't riddles for women to solve

Reema Zaman
Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, NJ (AP/Julio Cortez)

I left my heart in Jersey City

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck: An Everyman's Guide to a Meaningful Life" by John Kim (Harper Collins)

Men: We don't have to be miserable jerks

John Kim
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I blame myself for my son's overdose

Christina Hughes Babb
"Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive" by Stephanie Land (Hachette Books/Nicol Biesek)

"There's no way to save up money"

Erin Keane
(Kayla Jean)

How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan

Trapper Schoepp
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Portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP/David Goldman)

Coming around on MLK, thanks to Grandma

D. Watkins
"Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married" by Abby Ellin (Aaron Fedor/PublicAffairs)

Swept off her feet by a con artist

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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There's life after social media

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Weight loss: Not just how, but why

Erin Keane
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Author at Disneyland (Courtesy of author)

Disneyland with my invisible guest

Tabitha Blankenbiller
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A skeptic's year of consulting psychics

Erin Keane
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Dating my therapist

Elizabeth Pimentel
Gordon Ramsay on "MasterChef" (FOX/Greg Gayne)

I am a "MasterChef" survivor

Jessie Glenn
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A photo of the author's grandfather (Courtesy of the Author)

My grandfather was a Nazi collaborator

Silvia Foti
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What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo

Natalie West
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Confessions of a "Failmom"

Lori Barrett
A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
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Underemployed and unashamed in America

Lisa Wells
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Aliens at the dinner table

Keith A. Spencer
Jimi Hendrix (AP/Bruce Fleming)

A very 60s Christmas

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Inmates work on staining cabinet doors at the Habitat for Humanity Prison Build at the Ionia Correctional Facility in Ionia, Mich. (AP/Carlos Osorio)

An inmate's guide to earning $0.24/hour

Michael Fischer
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