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$200
Editor's Pick
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There’s a Cure for Addiction—& It’s Not what You Think.
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Elephant was one of the first major sites to pay our best, consistent writers. But it was always hard to measure “best.” Now, we are introducing weekly payments to the top 10 articles on Elephant based on their Ecosystem Score—95% determined by our readers’ actions: reads, hearts, comments, and 5% determined by our Editor’s Picks (so that mission balances popularity).
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Note: When folks earn identical scores, we use the number of reads as the tiebreaker.
June 17 to 23 Winners
There’s a Cure for Addiction—& It’s Not what You Think.
Unexpected Ways Abandonment Trauma can Impact our Lives.
I Shut My Heart Down for 3 Years after a Major Heartbreak—& This is What Happened.
The Only Kind of Romantic Love we will Ever Need.
When Nostalgia Strikes: Why I (sometimes) Miss the Lost Art of Letter Writing.
The #1 Gift we can Give Someone in a Relationship.
6 Books that Capture LGBTQ+ Joys & Hardships.
How the F*ck?—5 Books to Read when we’re Curious about other People’s Sex Lives.
101 Tiny Blessings for when we Feel Ungrateful, Unhappy or Lost.
Love Lost & Gained: How my Dad Died on the Same Day I Found Him.
