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True Stories: Ménage à Nicolas

"After a few drinks, I noticed that Nicolas's hand was resting on my leg..." Marguerite Kennedy | 04.18.2012 | Comments (23)

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True Stories: Vacation Sex, Past a Certain Age

For the purposes of this trip to St. Lucia, let's just say I'm twenty-four. Alison Preece | 04.13.2012 | Comments (22)

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True Stories: My Problem With Nice Guys, by Rachel Dratch

What's so sexy about nice? Rachel Dratch | 04.12.2012 | Comments (72)

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True Stories: Constructive Summer

When I worked construction, I learned more than a trade. Jillian Capewell | 03.30.2012 | Comments (14)

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True Stories: Girls' Night at the Men's Club

You can learn a lot about yourself in places you never thought you'd end up. Sarah Sweeney | 03.23.2012 | Comments (31)

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True Stories: How My Wife is My Wayne Gretzky, by Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith on his wife, daughter, and having the record for assists in a marriage. Kevin Smith | 03.20.2012 | Comments (37)

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True Stories: Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser

A writer in a cocktail dress faces a pickup artist in a leisure suit, in an all-night battle royal. Clarisse Thorn | 03.19.2012 | Comments (25)

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True Stories: First Love America

My road trip with my boyfriend taught me a lot about love — just not what I expected to learn. Rachel Krantz | 03.16.2012 | Comments (19)

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True Stories: Speed Dating and Erotic Tai Chi

My night started with speed-dating and ended even stranger. Carlos Kotkin | 03.14.2012 | Comments (19)

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True Stories: Behavioral Psychology and You

How undergraduate-level science helped me train my boyfriend to call me. Sadie Dingfelder | 03.9.2012 | Comments (23)

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True Stories: Love After Cancer

How I learned to love after thinking I might not live long enough to. Lindsey Claire | 03.5.2012 | Comments (28)

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True Stories: The Ultimate Dealbreaker

Nothing about my girlfriend led me to imagine why we'd break up. Markham Lee | 03.2.2012 | Comments (216)

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True Stories: The Perks and Perils of Car Sex

At age thirty-three, I finally learned how to live like a teenager. Sonia Aurora | 02.17.2012 | Comments (20)

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True Stories: I Fell For a Fictional Character in My Own Play

The brown-eyed guy who played him was, however, quite real. Eva Holland | 02.10.2012 | Comments (8)

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True Stories: The Twitter Affair

Infidelity in only 140 characters. Cari Wade Gervin | 02.6.2012 | Comments (81)

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True Stories: The Most Suburban Way to Lose Your Virginity

Driving out of town to buy condoms? Check. Getting mocked by the pharmacist? Check... Chris Gethard | 02.3.2012 | Comments (23)

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True Stories: My Boyfriend's Friends and Me

How can I connect to them? And what does it mean if I never do? Maura Kelly | 01.30.2012 | Comments (39)

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True Stories: In Which My Parents Read About Me Having Sex On The Internet

The perks and perils of a very honest relationship. EJ Dickson | 01.23.2012 | Comments (47)

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True Stories: Musings on an Abandoned CD Case

There it was, splayed out on the corner of 11th and A... Adam Bloom | 01.17.2012 | Comments (22)

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True Stories: Meeting on a Jet Plane

Post-breakup, I doubted I could ever make a connection. Lauren Quinn | 01.16.2012 | Comments (20)

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