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Life Stories (page 458)

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

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Love letters from an English teacher: I was 33, Julio was 19. Mexico was bound to discover us.

Susan McKinney de Ortega
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When mommy's mind is in the toilet: Bathroom humor prevails

Carol Hall
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Travel Advisor: Will flooding kill my Day of the Dead? Advice on Mexico and more

Donald D. Groff
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HMO woes: would reforms change behavior?

Dawn MacKeen
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Broken lifeline: A mother is haunted by a nanny's prophesy

Allison Hoover Bartlett
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Don George: Guidebook writers reveal their favorite disaster tales

Don George
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My seeds are sprouting in two wombs: Confessions of a sperm donor, Part 2

Hank Pellissier
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Win a trip for two to Patagonia: Guidebook publisher sponsors essay contest

Don George
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Goodbye, Khao San Road: Our correspondent reflects on the evolution of the middle-class travel revolution

Rolf Potts
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Irrational velvet: How can deer antlers make you sexier?

Debra Ollivier
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A bittersweet saga in Sicily: History and hype in Italy

Frank Browning
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October: Mary Roach finds out this is Talk About Prescriptions Month!

Mary Roach
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Wanderlust: G-strings beneath the veils -- Egypt's slinky side

Susan Hack
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Travel Advisor: Get thee to a nunnery! Convent accommodations in Poland, and more

Donald D. Groff
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Hale fellows well writ: The original Hardy Boys are back

Steve Burgess
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Nancy Drew: Sleuthing a vanished American girlhood

Amy Benfer
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The secret to life: A working wife

Rob Ryder
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Robbed on Lombok: A traveler's worst nightmare comes true

Brent Hannon
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Making bread is hard to do: Mommy in the alpha job

Dianne Lake
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Laughing with the Dalai Lama: A meeting in Dharamsala

Rachel Louise Snyder
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Eric Harris did not rage alone: Young men and their writing

Jill Wolfson
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Letter from Moscow: Is Russia is on the verge of collapse?

Jeffrey Tayler
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Pain without tears: breast cancer destroys more than flesh

Pamela Post
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Why was she squeezing my nipples? My Vietnamese masseuse freaked me out.

Yvonne Shafir

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