“The contents of that envelope were powerful enough to destroy my dad, and our relationship, forever: I was in love, and he wasn’t white.”
2000 | Las Vegas, Nevada | By AMBER WESTON

“She was like every other kid sitting in dark classrooms, watching videos of anorexic teens’ remorseful confessions or listening to lectures from foreshadowing nurses on the severe long-term health problems of eating disorders. She wondered how anyone could subject their body to such torture.” | Then came that moment when the incomprehensible became a possibility.
1999 to 2000 | Nevada | By SHANNON GALLAGHER KELLER

After a long drive from Oakland, she and Ben arrived in Reno around 2 p.m. The night before, Ben had come home from visiting his new friend, Jamie, with a renewed sense of positivism. As they were eating dinner, he looked up at her and said, “I think we should get married.”
March 6, 2005 | Reno, Nevada | By BRANDY COOPER-GLASBAND