How Do You Measure a Year?

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From an extramarital affair to cancer, the last 525,600 minutes of John Taylor’s life have been tough. But he’s going to remember it by all of the love that grew.

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Good Grief

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A generation later, Kile Ozier believes the gay community has still not healed from the ravaging shame and grief that accompanied the AIDS crisis.

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I Let My Son Fall and Fail

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A playground encounter forces a dad to assert his right to parent.

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But Now I See

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Steven Holcomb was a world champion bobsledder. But he had a secret. He was going blind. Here is an excerpt from his new memoir.

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A Liberal and a Gun Nut Walk Into a Blog

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The debate over gun control and 2nd Amendment rights is stuck in an us vs them mentality

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I Am a Survivor, and I Can Finally Talk About It

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Levi Greenacres feels anything but big and strong when he thinks about his rape, and the rapes of the people he loves.

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I’m a Male Nurse – So What?

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Brett Adamson became a nurse because he wanted to help people, but he quickly discovered that as a man, you’re never just a nurse, you’re always a “male nurse.”

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Dear Mr. President, Our Nation’s Boys Need Your Attention

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Mark Sherman, a big fan of the President, asks him to call the nation’s attention to the problems facing boys and young men.

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How Teens Drink

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Before the energy drink slash cocktail and butt-chugging, there was “The Watermelon Crawl” and “Mr. Boston’s.”

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I Can Finally Say I Am Proud to Be a Man

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A lifetime of homophobia had beaten down Larry Best, but with the help of a friend, he has regained pride in his manhood.

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Drink Like a Union Man

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Jesse Kornbluth learns to suck it up like the big boys.

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Coup d’État

Dominican Republic, puberty, rites of passage, missionaries, youth mission

A missionary growing his first chin hairs comes face to face with revolutionary soldiers in the Dominican Republic.

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Sean Hannity, Take Note: Physical Courage is Easier Than Moral Courage

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It’s easy to blindside someone and lay them out; it’s a lot harder to stand up in a locker room of 52 teammates and say it’s wrong to try and intentionally hurt an opponent.

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I Was Depressed Until I Played Basketball

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Volunteering to coach your son’s first grade basketball team is one kind of pain, being forced to play for the first time in 20 years led Andrew Cotto to a much different feeling

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My Wobbly Bicycle, 17: A Tribute to My Husband

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Poet Fleda Brown’s moving tribute to the man who sees her as beautiful, chemo hat or not.

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Just Because I Look Like My Father Doesn’t Mean I Act Like Him

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One mother sees the influences of her abusive father in her face, and the love of her husband in her daughter

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