Topic: Real Families (page 9)

Real Families is a personal-essay series that celebrates the surprising and ever-shifting nature of domestic life in the 21st century. If you have a fascinating, original story you'd like to share, email life@salon.com.

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Skorts killed my sex appeal

Paige Parker

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20 minutes in fertility hell

Greg Pollock

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When my wife got cancer

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I prayed my mom would leave

Melissa Chadburn

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Flying with my toddler is easy

Corinne Purtill

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My single mom screw-up

Laurie Bain Wilson

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My bad baby-sitter years

Jessica Berger Gross

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I was a teenage bride

Holly Goddard Jones

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My public school beat-down

Pamela Kripke

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"I'm jumping off the bridge"

Kevin Sampsell

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Return to the Creation Museum

Luke Winkie

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My husband, the criminal

Janet Lombardi

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Why did you leave, mom?

Thais Derich

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We survived the bubonic plague

Lucinda Marker

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Someone to hold me

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Puking in my wedding dress

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My sister's perfect life

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His adoption secret

Jennifer D. Munro

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All my parenting mistakes

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Without diapers, who am I?

Aaron Traister

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Ugh: My son moves home

Stephanie Tames

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My secret from Dad

Margaret Mattox

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My father, the woman

Tanya Quaife

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"Mad Men" and Mom's suicide

Gayle Brandeis

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