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Writing professor Susan Shapiro is the bestselling author of memoirs her family hates including "Five Men Who Broke My Heart," "Lighting Up," and most recently "The Forgiveness Tour," just out in paperback. You can follow her on Instagram at @profsue123.

Therapist going on vacation, leaving an empty couch (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Shrinking around: Should you stay faithful to your therapist in August?

Susan Shapiro

Broken Cigarette (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

Secrets of a serial addict: How I got hooked on quitting, over and over again

Susan Shapiro

Gloria Steinem Wearing Playboy Bunny Costume | Barbie in her various incarnations (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How feminists are catching up to Barbie: She’s everything – and has always been subversive

Susan Shapiro

Photos of Stanley Mieses (Photo illustration by Salon/Photos courtesy of Susan Shapiro and the Mieses estate/Getty Images)

Remembering New Yorker magazine alum Stanley Mieses, a Talk of the Town character in his own right

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American real estate magnate Donald Trump with his first wife, Ivana (nee Zelnickova) at the Costume Institute Gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 9th December 1985. (Tom Gates/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Ivana and me? It’s complicated: A Manhattan feminist’s connection to the first Mrs. Trump

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Desk with a medical stethoscope, a book and a cup of coffee (iStock/Getty Images)

My disapproving doctor father hated my work — but we had more in common than I thought

Susan Shapiro

A woman sitting at her desk talking to her colleagues in a meeting using her laptop computer (Getty Images/FreshSplash)

A Zoom of one’s own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission

Susan Shapiro

Shapiro Family at the airport (Photo provided by Susan Shapiro)

Why my father fasted on Yom Kippur: On survival, memory, and the power of a family story

Susan Shapiro

Broken Pencil (Getty Images/Maciej Toporowicz)

What do mentors and protégés owe each other?

Susan Shapiro

Spying on an Ex through their spouse (Illustration by Ilana Lidagoster/Salon)

A spy in the house of my first love

Susan Shapiro

Hands protecting burning candle candlelight in darkness (Getty Images)

The forgiveness tour: How letting go of a grudge healed me

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My personal Michigan recount: The official vote review is off, but I only needed answers from one family — my own

Susan Shapiro

Shot of two people holding hands in comfort (Getty/PeopleImages)

The forgiveness tour: When the only thing better than hearing “I’m sorry” is saying it

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New Year’s is a bad day to quit sniffing glue — or anything else: Make those resolutions, sure, but don’t dream of starting today

Susan Shapiro

“The Boxer’s Heart” by Kate Sekules

Susan Shapiro

So Forth

Susan Shapiro

Journals

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The Art Fair

Susan Shapiro