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- a chronicle of gambling addiction—about poker, Lolita, and how to lose $18,000 in less than 36 hours
- our profile of a longtime, elite LSD researcher who, after the government banned his studies, reinvented himself through micro-dosing
- our gallery and interview with a photographer who turns her camera on her catcallers
- a revealing essay from a postal worker on the daily trauma our mail carriers endure
- a husband’s poignant and hopeful experience with in-vitro fertilization and its extraordinary highs and lows
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