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• A Letter to My Thirties

  by Sarah Menkedick + Follow

  Vela | May 2012

  Questions I'm asking myself about the life that lies ahead.

• Damn Right Your Dad Surfed It

  by Don Waters + Follow

  Outside | June 2012

  When Don Waters finally read the unpublished memoir given to him by his late father—an absentee figure he grew up resenting—he was shocked to learn that the old man hung with Greg Noll during surfing’s golden age in California. Sounds like grounds for a quest.

• In China’s Shadow

  by Michael Paterniti + Follow

  National Geographic | June 2012

  Fifteen years after the handover to mainland China, Hong Kong residents worry that their identity—and their freedoms—are slipping away.