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She was 25 years old and pregnant with her first child—the picture of health, happiness, and the potential of life. But Nicole Davis had no idea that she’d developed a relentless form of cancer [...]

March 3, 2010 Glamour Magazine One slow afternoon at her Arizona public relations job, 25-year-old Meghan Pearce found herself browsing the Scottsdale page on the gossip website thedirty.com. The [...]

January, 2010 Dallas Observer Diane once considered herself above other prostitutes. In nearly 20 years working highway truck stops, downtown street corners and even a brothel in Nevada, for the [...]

March 12, 2009 Dallas Observer Just 5 feet tall, witha baby strapped to her chest and a soft, faltering voice, Kim Rivera is anything but soldierly. Yet, two years ago she was a private in the [...]

April, 2008 Dallas Observer The problem began the night his wife didn’t come home. He had left his construction job, then fed their kids. He put them to bed, watched TV and tried to sleep. [...]

November, 2008 Dallas Observer The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio’s wide, mirrored space is punctuated by gleaming silver poles that extend from floor to [...]

May, 2008 Dallas Observer He stopped the white Volvo. It was a sunny December day in 2006, and they’d been driving through Burleson as he prepared to finish his second Iraq tour after two [...]

September, 2009 Dallas Observer I‘m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I’m [...]

July, 2007 Dallas Observer Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to [...]

August, 2008 Dallas Observer His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed him. At 45, “Steve” was a hard-charging sales manager [...]