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Real Stories

JUNE 2015

'How a novice traveller is pressing my buttons. Badly.'
Is big business the real reason people are faking illness?
How we can turn around horrific levels of violence against Australian women.
'Is my yearning for children really about wanting love?'
This is how it feels to be denied access to your grandkids.
'Fashion victim' forced to crawl after skinny jeans cut blood supply to her legs.
I worry my partner's an alcoholic. But what does that make me?
'5 things I learnt from reading my teenage diary.'
Why telling kids 'looks don't matter' is the wrong approach.
'My husband's stance on nude photos almost made me choke.'
When living as a de facto is a bigger crime than murder.
11 books that will transport you somewhere glorious.
When did asking for money as a gift become okay?
'My mother might leave me. But she can't. She's my mother.'
A great Australian writer brings her mother's story to life.
A survivor's hell: the horror inside an atomic blast.
A mother of a transgender child tells her story.
'Why boys of my youth promised so much - but delivered so little.'
'My husband suddenly suffered dementia in his early 50s.'
How online dating showed me how shockingly shallow I am.
The horrifying war experiments that weren't conducted by the Nazis.
18 must-read books about extraordinary women.
'I don't know if AA is a cult. But it's the reason I'm not dead.'
How did these 13 things suddenly become cool?
The 5 things I wish more people understood about losing a child.
'She misses two appointments. I start to feel panicked ...'
The morbid, little-known odyssey of JFK’s original casket.
This is the most difficult year you and daughter will ever have.