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Last Live Concert in Bolshoi 2016
Alexandrov Russian Army Song and Dance Ensemble
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The widowhood effect: What it’s like to lose a loved one so young
When her husband died at 36, Christina Frangou was a statistical outlier, a young widow. She soon discovered that there was a name for the phenomenon surrounding her devastating grief and the toll it takes on those left behind.
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Blood Red and Goin’ Down
Tanya Tucker
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Listening for the Country
“I’m not sure what Mama prayed for during that time, but I know in those last years with her and Daddy, bitterness and Daddy’s perpetual incorrigibility had made her too tight to pray right for anything.” By Zandria F. Robinson. (Dec. 8, 2016)
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Real Life: My Sister, My Brother
The winner of our tenth essay contest, Meghan Tear Plummer, shares her honest, heartfelt story of loving her transgender brother—and missing the sister he used to be.
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Body and Soul
Considering the eternal dance of Eros and Thanatos. By Noga Arikha.
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Man Dying From Cancer Spends Last Good Day On Phone With Insurance Company
Displaying a level of strength and mobility that he will never again possess as he paced back and forth across his living room Tuesday, terminally ill man Thomas Halverson reportedly spent the last good day of his life on the phone with his insurance company. [Satire]
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The Heart-Work
Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act. By Melissa Febos.
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10+ Powerful NSFW Photos From The 2017 Birth Photo Competition Prove That Moms Are Badass
The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers has announced the winners of their 2017 contest, and the photos they chose show the struggles mothers go through to bring new life into the world, and the sheer joy that follows.
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Man dies under his six-ton pile of porn magazines
A lonely Japanese man who amassed more than six tons of porn died when a huge pile of magazines fell on top of him. And even more tragically, the man's body was only discovered six months later when the landlord entered the flat to find out why the rent had not been paid. The man's lowly death was revealed by a member of the cleaning team, who said his company had been hired to remove the magazines discreetly in a way that would not be noticed by neighbours and the man's family to save them from the shame.
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The Amateur Historian Who Uncovered Ireland’s Mass Grave of Babies
The dogged effort of a determined historian in a small Irish town uncovered one of the greatest tragedies in modern Irish history. By Tom Sykes.
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5 of the Creepiest Suicide Notes
The Jewish-American holder of a degree in psychology committed suicide in one of the original ways ever: he spent most of his years writing the longest suicide note ever seen (1905 pages). In what sounds so different from others: Heisman did not take his own life in a moment of madness or depression, but he killed himself just because he couldn’t find the meaning and purpose of living, after he studied it for years and questioned everything. So, he got to the conclusion that “There is nothing to take seriously!”
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Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain
“The ancient Greek Menander once said: ‘Woman is a pain that never goes away.’ He probably just meant women were trouble, but his words hold a more sinister suggestion: the possibility that being a woman requires being in pain, that pain is the unending glue and prerequisite of female consciousness.” By Leslie Jamison.
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The Perfect Fire
It started with a candle in an abandoned warehouse. It ended with the men of the Worcester Fire Department in a fight for their lives. By Sean Flynn.
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The Truth Is Out There (About Menopause)
Actress Gillian Anderson and her friend the journalist Jennifer Nadel tell the truth about the change.
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My Mother’s Murder
She disappeared when I was four. It was years before I understood why. By Leah Carroll.
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The Wait
On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy. By Jessica Grose.
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‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’
Nine months after the Orlando shooting claimed 49 lives, it still shapes and binds two survivors and the youngest victim’s brother. By Jordan Ritter Conn.
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Chimp mother filmed cleaning dead body of son in first hint of primate funeral rites
A chimpanzee was filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of her adopted son, the first hint that animals other than humans have mortuary practises. By Sarah Knapton.
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Tripping in the ICU
For those suffering the trauma of intensive care, the soothing swoosh of otherworldly ambient music can be a welcome gift. By Charles Fernyhough.
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