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The Other Sister: Returning Home to Care for an Autistic Sibling
As many as 700,000 adults in the U.S. with a disability like autism live with parents or another family member who is 60 or older. What happens when those caregivers are gone? One sibling confronts her past and likely future. By Ciara O’Rourke.
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Seeing Stars
When you’re grieving, a phone can become an optical instrument, turning magical thinking to magical realism. By Alex Ronan.
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Bermuda Triangle scare you? Meet the Gulf’s Jacuzzi of Death
The toxic underwater lake beneath of the Gulf, four-times more salty than the surrounding water, was discovered by the E/V Nautilis expedition. By Jared Leone.
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Mourning Half Begun
Marise Williams on the work of artist, jeweller and taxidermist Julia DeVille.
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The other residential school runaways
Two boys escaping a [”]residential school[”] followed tragically in the footsteps of Chanie Wenjack. Their story was forgotten. Until now. By Michael Friscolanti.
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World (or at Least Brooklyn) Stops for Lost Dog
Bailey was leashed to a chair outside a café. The chair fell. Bailey ran. For days. By Andy Newman.
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Meeting One’s Madness
Our newest correspondent is Megan Mayhew Bergman, who will be writing about naturalism. For her first piece she considers the writer Alan Watts and the “age of environmental anxiety.”
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Jenna and Josh
Josh Beuhler was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a brain tumor. A photographer documented the Beuhler’s next twenty months.
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A Brief History of Death
Shortly after my thirteenth birthday, my mother announced somewhat mysteriously that it was time for me “to get to know the books.” By Nir Baram.
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Hospitals, ‘Hallucinations,’ Torture and Pain
There are two kinds of suffering: the patient wrestling with more than he or she can endure. And the family watching, unable to help and also at the mercy of the medical staff. By Pete Dexter, Jeff Nale.
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My High School Girlfriend Became America’s Most Wanted Drug Queenpin
I lost my virginity to the baddest goth girl at theater camp. When I tracked her down fifteen years later I discovered just how dangerous Liz Barrer really was. By Jonathan Reiss.
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Anthony Griffith: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
A comic must earn his living as a clown while suffering the ultimate heartbreak. Presented by The Moth.
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Geek Love
Growing up gay was tough for my twin brother. Dungeons & Dragons made life easier. By Kevin Patterson.
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Leslie’s House of Nightmares
"When I read Anne’s House of Dreams now, I wish for a narrative with Leslie, not Anne, as the protagonist." By Kate Washington.
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Not all there: My mother's lobotomy
I learned about my mother's lobotomy when I was 25, maybe 26. I'm still trying to make sense of it. By Mona Gable.
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Last Men Standing
They had the remarkable luck to survive AIDS, and the brutal misfortune to live on. By Erin Allday.
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‘And yet, you try’
A father’s quest to save his son. By Julie Greicius.
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Last Meal of Death Row Inmates Right Before Execution
What food do the world’s most feared criminals crave for before they die?
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The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz
Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But the people who knew the gifted programmer best saw another side. By Larissa MacFarquhar. (Mar. 11, 2013)
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How a great-grandmother’s body came to be used in an Army blast test
The story of how Doris Stauffer became part of a military experiment against family wish casts light on a growing but unregulated industry: human body brokers. By John Shiffman.
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