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Topic: life essay

Man alone at a train station at night (Getty Images)

We need more discussion of depression

David DeWitt
Senior man and assistant in the park (Getty Images/Katarzyna Bialasiewicz)

Emotional labor prematurely aged me

Becca Willow Moss
Red Fox behind Tree (Getty Images/Jim Cumming)

Befriending a wild fox

Catherine Raven - Independent Media Institute
Motion view of girl backstroke swimmers starting a race and entering the water together (Getty Images/Jonathan Kirn)

Was my swimming coach an abuser?

Kim Fairley
A Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine prepared for a patient at Pontcae Medical Practice on January 4, 2021 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was administered at a handful of hospitals today before being rolled out to hundreds of GP-led sites across the country this week. (Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

My choice, my community

D. Watkins
(Getty Images)

Memorial Day, tradition and potato salad

Hannah Howard
Fawn's House, found on a trip to Leavenworth in the 90's while researching a movie. (Courtesy of the author)

How you get good at leaving

Lucian k. Truscott
(Getty/PeopleImages)

Racism as Millennial parlor talk

Priscilla Ward
(Illustrations by Elliot Freeman/Narratively)

Tab Rodocker - Narratively
Ann Hood (Catherine Sebastian)

"Skinny isn't beautiful"

Ann Hood
(Shutterstock)

Rachel C Weingarten - DAME

JOHN BIEMER - The Weeklings
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-317854p1.html'>Alexey Losevich</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Am I a lousy father?

MATTHEW NORMAN
(Tim Georgeson)

Bound in a broken body

Drew Nelles - The Walrus
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2231825p1.html'>Newnow</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Sex and the 7-year-old boy

Mona Gable