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Inspiring True Stories
LHJ's Personal Essay Contest winner used to hate being anywhere near an airplane, but then a family emergency changed all that. Read her story, plus other honest, inspiring accounts from our readers.
All Your Stories Stories
- Tips for Writing a Great Personal Essay
- Here's to You, Dad!
- The Vacation Nightmare That Changed My Life
- I Just Know These Products Will Change My Life
- My Mother's Words of Wisdom
- Three Moms and a Real Housewife in Haiti
- I'm a Recovering Alcohol, Drug, and Food Addict
- Nice Girls Do Get Tattoos
- 365 Days of Inspiration
- I Finally Met the Woman Who Held My Dying Son
- I Diagnosed Myself
- My Mother, the Hoarder
- 2012 Personal Essay Contest
- The Homecoming
- What's for Dinner, Dude?
- It Doesn't Have to Be Sad: The Life of a Hospice Nurse
- A Hospice Worker's Life: Photo Essay
- The Last Laugh
- Let's Talk About Guilty Pleasures
- Lost and Found: How a Whole Neighborhood Helped Get My Dog Back
- Prom Night, 1989
- Let's Talk About Swimsuits
- Under the Shadow of Alzheimer's
- My Holiday Chicken Challenge
- The Dessert Collector
- Confessions of a (Kinda Sorta) Cat Lady
- Nothing Says Love Like a Big Metal Chicken
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