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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I was sexually assaulted. And I believe incarcerating rapists doesn’t help victims like me
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A US Border Patrol agent reveals what it’s really like to guard migrant children
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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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I’m a journalist but didn't fully realize the terrible power of US border officials until they violated my rights and privacy
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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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What happened after my 13-year-old son joined the alt-right
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My childhood in a cult
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A former alt-right member’s message: Get out while you still can
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I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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Cecilia's life with schizophrenia
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The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: Moving back to the Midwest
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Bigger than that - Complex thoughts on a life spent being the short guy
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Why drinking can feel isolating when you have 'Asian glow'
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‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
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An interview with a guy who wears the same thing every day
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An Honest Living - Steve Salaita tries to make sense of his unusual transition from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving school buses
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Magic sluts with psoriasis
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My life at 47 is back to what it was like at 27 - Post-divorce, I’ve returned to my old ways
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A four-year-old trapped in a teenager’s body
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Frozen alive
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Growing up as a living goddess
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