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    Playing Doctor: Column 4: The Pain Scale
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    The People in an Olive Garden Commercial Share Their Existential Pain
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    The Society of Pain
    by Will O’Neill
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    by Lynsey G.
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    An Open Letter to the House of Pain (aka, Pain Management Resources)
    by Ann Imig
  • March 18, 2005
    A List of Phrases, Common in Our Language, That Become Awkward in a Dimension of Unending Pain
    by Aaron Esser-Kahn
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