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Life Stories (page 457)

The Life Stories section features insightful commentary and essays about the human experience from Salon.

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Halloween odyssey: A pilgrim's paean to the bone chapels of Europe

Summer McStravick
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Turning Parisienne: I wanted to be a French woman for a day!

J.A. Getzlaff
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Mass en masse: New Year's at the Vatican and advice on other excursions

Donald D. Groff
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I booked it online: Where to find hotel bargains and treasures

Judy Jacobs
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Under the knife: How to kill your pumpkin with pride

Bob Caceres
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Godiva truffles and candy corn: Halloween books for your bag

Polly Shulman
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Letter from Ladakh: Rugged survival in a starkly beautiful land

Steve Van Beek
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Urge: How to have sex with your girlfriend's dog

Michael Erard
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Spanking in Britain: Child care experts face off

Shelley Emling
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Hitting below the belt: Restraining-order abuse

Cathy Young
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Vaginal therapy: one man worships at the altar of love

Tom Wolbarst
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Eating Iberia: Junketing journalists do Spain and Portugal

Douglas Cruickshank
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A nation of randy Lolitas? Not.

Karen Houppert
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My boyfriend in jackboots: Germany showed me too much that summer

Lauren Fox
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Love me, love my guns: When the other woman is an arsenal

Susan Straight
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Travel Advisor: Sleeping in Seattle, plus finding holiday-season rooms in New York

Donald D. Groff
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Knocked up and bird dogged: I get hit on while pregnant

Helene Stapinski
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Novel disease: "Paisley Girl" suffers from rare disorder

Fran Gordon
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Don George: Once upon a time in Greece -- a tale of ruins and revelers and Aegean nights

Don George
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Temporary friends: A white-hot connection

Lauren Kessler
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Tom Jones and the semiotics of panty-throwing.

Virginia Vitzthum
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Renegades in the Everglades: Two frat brothers search for the legendary Mr. Watson

Bill Belleville
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I cannot tell a lie: Confessing to mom about being a hooker

Tracy Quan
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Fat guys rule: And they have all the fun!

Steven A. Shaw

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