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A photo of the author at her college graduation.

Our school shooting

Sarah Tomlinson
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-209254p1.html'>Peter Bernik</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

27 and never been kissed

Tiffany Haache
A photo of the author, at 19, and her husband (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1098722p1.html'>secondcorner</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

I was a teenage bride

Holly Goddard Jones
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-434191p1.html'>Lucky Business</a> and <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-592756p1.html'>piotr_pabijan</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Allergic to myself

Julie Flynn Badal
A photo of the author's mother, far right, with her students.

My public school beat-down

Pamela Kripke
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-148486p1.html'>Ivan Bondarenko</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

REO Speedwagon will save us

Sarah Hepola
A photo of the author (Kareem Worrell)

Trans, but not like you think

Thomas Page McBee
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-332329p1.html'>Bobkeenan Photography</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

"I'm jumping off the bridge"

Kevin Sampsell
Sheila Heti

My girl problems

Elisa Albert
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-222367p1.html'>1971yes</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Return to the Creation Museum

Luke Winkie
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-123808p1.html'>Phase4Photography</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

My Klonopin fog

Diana Spechler
The stairs of a home that was completely destroyed in the High Park fire near Fort Collins, Colo. (Reuters/Rick Wilking)

When the fires came for us

Laura Pritchett
A photo of the author on the Alaskan Highway. (John Erler)

All women should travel alone

Sarah Hepola
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-100760p1.html'>Andy Dean Photography, </a> <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-788509p1.html'>Peeradach Rattanakoses, </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon/)

My husband, the criminal

Janet Lombardi
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-273727p1.html'>Mila Supinskaya</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Why did you leave, mom?

Thais Derich
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-363574p1.html'>Cupertino</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

My slide back to painkillers

Lorraine Berry
The author and her husband

We survived the bubonic plague

Lucinda Marker

My formerly adventurous life

Jonathan Kime
A photo of the author with her son (Anne Staveley)

Someone to hold me

Emily Rapp
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-797713p1.html'>Mel Canlas</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Secrets of the Muslim bathroom

Wajahat Ali
A photo of the author at 17

I was a right-wing child star

Jonathan Krohn
A photo of the author and her husband taking one of many cognac shots on her wedding night.

Puking in my wedding dress

Suzanne Ma
A photo of the author (AP Photo/Greg Bluestein)

Life after Herman Cain

Ginger White
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-401914p1.html>1000 Words</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

My life in iPhone apps

John Rico
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