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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.

Hey, did you read:

• That the first digital camera weighed 8 and a half pounds and that condoms have been around since the mid-1500s? —Andrea Bauer

• Boston Globe columnist Joan Wickersham on what happened when her cousin became a suspect in a murder investigation? —Tony Adler

• That poet (and lesbian) Charlotte Mew is being rediscovered again? (Guess it has been a while since the last time.) —Kate Schmidt

Theater critic Lily Janiak pondering when it’s right to bring up race in a review? —Tony Adler

• This memoir about rehab and “Night Moves”? —Aimee Levitt

• About one overweight Tennessee rapper’s relationship with Waffle House? —Leor Galil

• Pitchfork editor Mark Richardson’s interview with the Roots and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon drummer ?uestlove? —Tal Rosenberg