My family’s slave
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I was a cable guy. I saw the worst of America.
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'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
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What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory
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I built a tiny home office… then I lost my job
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Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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A desperate rescue: A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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Back to the land - Alice Driver writes about her father, a potter, and his ongoing project of building his own tomb as his final creative act
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How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions of one year later.
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
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Why this woman chooses to live in a ghost town
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I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
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My teenage rebellion was fundamentalist Christianity
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The day the pirates came
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Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
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It's been surreal to watch friends, family and the broader public thrust so suddenly into a world I have inhabited for years: figuring out how to navigate Centrelink
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What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
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When your barber assumes you’re a racist too
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Cheating on my parents: My own abusive mother and father were being replaced, and they knew it
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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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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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The day that never happened
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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 showed vintage Mister Rogers to my 21st-century kids
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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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"Down the rabbit hole I go": How a young woman followed two hackers' lies to her death
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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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The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
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Hasina Shirzad – After leaving Afghanistan I was unprepared for life in a country where tasks are not strictly divided between the sexes
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We thought our prison strike was a success. Then came the officers in riot gear.
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Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
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I am a Jewish Arab
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Why I found my community in a Starbucks
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When you give a friend a kidney
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What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll
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This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
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Taking mushrooms for depression cured me of my atheism: Psilocybin not only eased my depression, it showed me a new way to live.
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