Cheating on my parents: My own abusive mother and father were being replaced, and they knew it
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Chemotherapy and the coronavirus threat — my immunity levels mean you need to care about COVID-19
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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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I got a Ring doorbell camera. It scared the hell out of me.
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Working in science was a brutal education. That’s why I left
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Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
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My teenage life after leaving a cult
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I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
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I don’t want to be the strong female lead
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What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
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I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
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Demoted and placed on probation
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Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
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I used to be an anti-LGBTQ Evangelical. Here’s what finally changed my heart and mind.
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The day that never happened
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Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
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How tarot and astrology helped me cope with my depression
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Our Tesla Model 3 suffered a catastrophic failure while parked
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I sold microwave meals on Deliveroo
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How I get by: A week in the life of a McDonald’s cashier
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I worked for Alex Jones. I regret it
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I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.
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I learned to play the piano without a piano
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I showed vintage Mister Rogers to my 21st-century kids
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Nine secrets I never knew about airports until I worked at LAX
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He was hijacked by pirates - and then mistaken for one. One man’s ordeal in the Gulf of Guinea, the world’s most dangerous shipping route.
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Korean education: A view from the trenches
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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My life as a minor league baseball clown
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Translation and the family of things - A young writer discovers her grandmother’s literary secret
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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I just took the world’s first twenty hour flight. Here’s what it did to me.
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What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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How I learned to cycle like a Dutchman
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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"Down the rabbit hole I go": How a young woman followed two hackers' lies to her death
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We tried to do vanlife right. It broke us down.
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‘I have $1500 that I’m giving away’: Man becomes legend for extreme acts of kindness toward strangers
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I lost my job for keeping Charlottesville police accountable. I'd do it again
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
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In Iceland I found I couldn't write – but then I started to notice small things
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Making friends with a stranger changed my life
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When I went on Newstart I knew it would be hard but I wasn’t prepared for the mental load
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Why I’ve stopped coming out to my mum
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The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
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Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot
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Queer people of color reflect on being told to “go back”
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'I lost everything': The obscene cost of being a woman with a chronic health problem
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