SPECIAL ISSUES
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After the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, Nerve featured the following collection of stories about grief and loss. If you'd like to help, please give to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

In this issue:
Love in the Time of Terrorism by Lisa Carver
What does sex feel like when you've lost all sense of safety?

Intimacy by Henry Wren
"I may have to drive around Iwo Jima several times, waiting to be sure they're completely done."

I Have Become Very Hairy by Yehuda Amichai
"At night my body is open and awake under the blanket"

The Last Times I Partied Before Starting AA by Matthew Klam
"Though he just said he was going to kill me, I'm caressing his neck and cheek. I don't want to appear uncool."

The Flesh Is Sad by Noelle Oxenhandler
A parent's love; a lover's loss; the same longing for connection.

Good by Cheryl Strayed
"He was the kind of man that other men did not know well enought to be threatened by sexually."
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