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I Was Here
Beyonce
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Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy
A day in the life of the singer-songwriter following the death of his wife, Geneviève. By Jayson Greene.
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The Last Game I Make Before I Die
Samuel Coster
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The Gift of Presence, The Perils of Advice
A helpful word can be a salve, but it's not always what we need. Parker Palmer on the power of quiet, unobtrusive presence to heal in troubled times.
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Falling Tide 落潮
Ning Cheng
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Oxyana (2013)
Sean Dunne
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'FGM happened to me in white, midwest America'
A Christian doctor removed my clitoris when I was three years old as a ‘cure’ for masturbation, writes Renee Bergstrom. (Dec. 3, 2016)
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Eulogy for a Fairy Princess
On Wednesday, my girlfriend died. She was an artist who lived in Providence, Rhode Island. She was 41 years old. By Lisa Williams.
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In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale
On becoming a stepmother. By Leslie Jamison.
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We spent months bracing and preparing for the death of our daughter
Especially not with the way it happened. By Royce Young.
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“I begged him to come home”: Breaking the taboo around texting the dead
Many people text dead loved ones to cope with their grief – but trouble arises when they get an unexpected reply. By Amelia Tait.
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‘It’s Very Hard To Find a Good Man Here’
The disappearance of manufacturing and the rise of opioid abuse has hit men in the Rust Belt hard. That’s meant women are left to pick up the pieces. By Alana Semuels.
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My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. By Alex Tizon.
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The good daughter
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time mother. And I don’t want to live with my ma any more than she wants to live with me. By Janice Turner.
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Snow-White
Max Fleischer
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Taking Muhammad Ali home
One year ago, a chosen few brought Muhammad Ali back to Louisville for the last time. This is the story of how they carried out their sacred calling. By Tom Junod.
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‘They were entwined’: the twins found at Dover’s white cliffs
The 59-year-olds were found with the ashes of their parents in their rucksacks. How did they get there? Jenny Kleeman reports.
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The Devil’s Henchmen
What do the ISIS dead deserve? In the battle for Mosul, thousands of militants have been killed. While seeking answers for what should be done with their bodies, Kenneth R. Rosen unearths a terrible crime.
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The Mysterious Power of Near-Death Experiences
“We are all constantly cheating death” is how I usually translated the Creole phrase that my mother had been casually saying for years. By Edwidge Danticat.
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At the end of her life, my mother started seeing ghosts, and it freaked me out
It‘s not that uncommon, but it was hard to figure out how to respond. By Steven Petrow.
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