Tag: Identity
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Loading…The Steep Cost of One Night on the Beach With a Boy
After getting pregnant at 16, the authorâs community and loved ones, who turned their heads at everyone elseâs mistakes, didnât extend the same kindness to her. It took its toll.
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In This Family, the Automobile Represented Both Extreme Chaos and Ultimate Freedom
Cars had an outsized impact on Nancy A. Nicholsâs life growing up: They liberated her and her mom, forever changed her father and briefly reunited her familyâthese are the tales that defined her.
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Weird Doesnât Even Begin to Describe It
It took my brother having his thumb almost cut off by his wife to realize what so many already knew: that maybe their marriage couldnât be saved after all, despite their love.
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The Inexplicable, Incomparable Bond Between Two Sisters
Here, the author details magical childhood memories of growing up with her sibling, their inevitable fracture and the beautiful way in which they effortlessly find their way back to one another again.
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I Walked Barefoot Across the Middle East, Searching for Answers
After giving her baby up for adoption when she was 16, a young woman sets out on a reckless trip, losing more and more of herself along the wayâuntil she finally finds something resembling hope.
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Itâs Amazing What a Haircut Can Do to a Person
After spending most of his childhood with a shaved head, Jerald Walker finally swears off the cut. Much to his chagrin, it turns out the style isnât done with him.
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Shamu Saved My Life. Or Did He?
Itâs one of the clearest memories of my childhood: My dad changed our plans so we could go to SeaWorld, and then our original flight crashed. But why am I the only one who remembers it that way?
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Whatâs the Opposite of Taking Someoneâs Virginity?
I finally slept with my best friend, just before he diedâand I started to fall apart after he was gone. Then a conversation with his ghostâand a perilous trek through the woodsâchanged everything.
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Two Truths and a Mountain of Lies
A young journalist reconnects with a beloved storyteller from his childhood, only to discover a fine, artistic line between fact and fiction.