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    • 14 Ratings
    • 4685 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Even With Obamacare, It's As If I Don't Exist

    APRIL 26, 2011 11:59PM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: true story, health, bonnie bernstein, politics, supreme court, mark levin, medical insurance, medicaid, president obama, price of gas, war, economy, obamacare, mammography, my obamacare story, afghanistan

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1188 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Mute

    APRIL 20, 2011 11:13AM

    By Jennifer Hritz


    Topics: true story, health, pregnancy, brain surgery

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 938 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The Rock Festival that Changed My Life

    APRIL 20, 2011 8:23AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: saved by pop culture, true story, atlanta pop festival, jimi hendrix, smoking pot, road trip, hippies, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 3913 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Healing In Bed With Grey's Anatomy

    APRIL 15, 2011 12:25PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: saved by pop culture, karen, melanoma, katherine zeta jones has problems but nothing compared to ours, cancer, loss, television keeps me sane and i don't care who knows it, real families, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 954 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    The Fine Print

    APRIL 14, 2011 4:13PM

    By Julia Lehman Caldwell


    Topics: true story, mortality, stroke, mother, medicine, science, health, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 2136 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Madonna: my personal timeline

    APRIL 14, 2011 7:49AM

    By Christine Macdonald


    Topics: saved by pop culture, madonna, true story, personal evolution

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 2999 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    Voluntary Termination: A stripper's road to self love

    APRIL 12, 2011 3:39PM

    By Christine Macdonald


    Topics: self worth, true story, exotic dancing, stripping

    • Editor's Pick
    • 41 Ratings
    • 2707 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    The Man Who Demanded "Bread"

    APRIL 12, 2011 8:15AM

    By Lea Lane


    Topics: true story, travel, sweden

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 604 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    You Can be a Gardener

    APRIL 11, 2011 8:01AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: true story, gardens, flowers, spring, bluebells, dame's rocket, poppies, plants

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 966 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Joe the Dishwasher

    APRIL 11, 2011 12:15AM

    By John's Mom


    Topics: autism, true story, family, philadelphia daily news, philadelphia, food, restaurant, health, autism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 2432 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    My Superstitious, Sentimental, Priceless Love Beads

    APRIL 8, 2011 9:58AM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: i adore my son, true story, travel, family life, i love you, open call, spring cleaning

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 4905 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    “Lady, You're In The Psychiatric Unit.”

    APRIL 6, 2011 12:01AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: no fun zones, real life, single, singles, divorce, divorced, true story, lower east side, nyc, divorced, hospital, medical, health, st. vincent's hospital, joan jett, radio city music hall, psych ward, will doig, mortifying disclosures, beth israel, beth israel hospital, bellevue, bellevue hospial, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 2426 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Reunion: my visit back to the strip clubs

    APRIL 5, 2011 11:56AM

    By Christine Macdonald


    Topics: coming full circle, exotic dancing, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 3493 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Being Bonnie Bernstein (Or ESPN when do I get my paycheck?)

    MARCH 30, 2011 12:02AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: sports, phillies, turk wendell, aj burnett, yankees, fran drescher, lee mazzilli, tom seaver, jets, joe namath, shea stadium, redsox, baseball, facebook, espn, bonnie bernstein, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 11765 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Am I supposed to be offended when someone calls me a MILF?

    MARCH 29, 2011 2:55PM

    By Wilson Diehl


    Topics: motherhood, true story, gender roles, feminism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1689 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Moving Day

    MARCH 24, 2011 7:45AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: true story, parents, retirement, moving, christmas

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 4682 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    The Walmart Carton Came Slamming Down On My Paycheck

    MARCH 23, 2011 12:08AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: happy thanksgiving, thanksgiving, black friday, wally's world, walmart, jewish, workers compensation, michelle obama, easter sunday, divorce, malnutrition, divorced, singles, single, michelle obama, politics, injury, walmart, true story

    • Editor's Pick
    • 34 Ratings
    • 3662 Views
    • 49 Comments
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    Japan's Lesson From Three Mile Island, Lower FUBAR Levels

    MARCH 18, 2011 1:19PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: japan, earthquakes, disasters, nuclear accident, not nuculor, open call, true story, three mile island, i barely passed chemistry, good thing our president was a nuclear engineer, reactions and reactors, meltdown

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 3123 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    A Miscarriage And Then A Bris -- What Was I Thinking

    MARCH 16, 2011 12:05AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: true story, miscarriage, bris, pregnant, bonnie bernstein, pregnant at 50, family, mother's day, open call, mortifying disclosures, divorced, divorce, circumcision, jewish

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 5266 Views
    • 43 Comments
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    The Unemployed Need Not Apply

    MARCH 14, 2011 1:55PM

    By Brokenwing


    Topics: advice, career, work, human resources, hr, title vii, eeoc, discrimination, joblessness, unemployment, true story, expert opinion

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