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    Items with the tag:

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    Dog
    Yishay Ishi Ron; Yardenne Greenspan, trans
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    You Mat­ter, Too!
    Mark Borovitz
    Interview

    “Crunchy Chords”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ricky Ian Gordon

    Bob Gold­farb
    July 15, 2024
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    The Most Human: Rec­on­cil­ing With My Father Leonard Nimoy
    Adam Nimoy
    Interview

    “Leonard’s Sto­ry Is My Sto­ry Too”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Adam Nimoy

    Isado­ra Kianovsky 
    June 3, 2024
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    Sub­cul­ture Vul­ture: A Mem­oir in Six Scenes
    Moshe Kash­er
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    Kyra Lisse
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    Pre­scrip­tion for Pain: How a Once-Promis­ing Doc­tor Became the ​“Pill Mill Killer”
    Philip Eil
    From the Journal

    The Joy of Shmutz

    Feli­cia Berliner
    September 12, 2022
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    Her Hid­den Struggle

    Gabrielle Leon Spatt, The Blue Dove Foundation
    February 22, 2021
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    As Need­ed for Pain: A Mem­oir of Addiction
    Dan Peres
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    Long Way Home: A Mem­oir of Fame, Fam­i­ly, and Redemption
    Cameron Dou­glas
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    Smacked: A Sto­ry of White-Col­lar Ambi­tion, Addic­tion, and Tragedy
    Eilene Zim­mer­man
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    Long Live the Tribe of Father­less Girls: A Memoir
    T Kira Madden
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    Is Revenge Justice?

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ri­et Ros­set­to wrote about her recent­ly pub­lished spir­i­tu­al mem­oir Sacred House­keep­ing and Beit T’Shu­vah, a faith-based recov­ery…
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    December 13, 2013
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