Blog Posts by Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine

It's something parents tend not to think about when they opt to post that adorable/awkward/crazy video of their kid on YouTube: What happens years after the clip goes viral?

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For Quebec native Gyslain Raza, also known as "Star Wars Kid," his sudden, unwanted fame led to years of pain and suicidal thoughts.

"No matter how hard I tried to ignore people telling me to commit suicide, I couldn’t help but feel worthless, like my life wasn’t worth living," Raza, now 25, said in his first-ever interview, which appears in L'actualite magazine (in French) and Maclean's (in English).

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Raza recorded the video in his school's TV club studio, where he and a group of students had been practicing a "Star Wars" parody. He was 14 years old. The clip of him wildly fighting an invisible foe is just 1 minute and 48 seconds long. It's been shared nearly 27.5 million times and viewed by over a billion people

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After 30 years of combing through databases and Internet search results, a mother and the son she gave up for adoption have been reunited, thanks to a random message posted on the family history record-keeping site Ancestry.com.

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Janice Lobaugh, a 48-year-old married mom of two who owns her own real estate company in Wasilla, Alaska, was just 17 when she was forced to give her 5-month-old baby boy, Therman Randall Blair, up for adoption.

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"I had a very stressful childhood," Lobaugh told Yahoo! Shine in an interview on Friday. She and her younger sister discovered they were both pregnant on the same day, and their mother — a single mom already struggling to raise three kids — was not supportive. One Friday when Therman was just a few months old, Lobaugh left him with her mother so she could pick up her paycheck. When she called

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A Florida Tex-Mex restaurant pulled a lion meat taco off its menu on Thursday after outraged customers lashed out on social media.

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"You people are DISGUSTING!" wrote "Plain Jane" on Facebook. "You are EVIL!!! I will share you everywhere and hope to shut you down. Stupid morons!"

South Tampa restaurant Taco Fusion, which opened in February, launched the promotion with an attention-getting statement on Facebook: "Real men eat Lion. The king of the jungle? Not anymore, baby."

On Wednesday, owner Ryan Gougeon told Florida news outlets that he's been receiving online death threats, but didn't really see why serving lion meat was such a big deal.

“In my mind, I don’t think this is a bad thing,” Ryan Gougeon told the Tampa Tribune. “These are animals that are raised for consumption on a farm, not from the wild where they are threatened. I travel to Asia frequently and exotic meats don’t seem to be a problem, but

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Author Kim Wong Keltner writes about why she won't be a Tiger Mom to her daughter, Lucy. (Photo: Kim Wong Keltner)In her controversial memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," Yale law professor Amy Chua defended her draconian parenting methods, explaining how being a controlling "Chinese-style" parent drives Asian-American children to succeed in ways that permissive "Western-style" parenting does not. But a recently released decade-long study of 444 Chinese-American families shows that the effect tiger parents have on their kids is almost exactly the opposite.

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When Chua's book came out in 2011, Su Yeong Kim, an associate professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Texas, had already been studying the effects of tiger parenting on hundreds of Chinese-American families for more than a decade. Her report, "Does Tiger Parenting Exist? Parenting Profiles of Chinese Americans and Adolescent Developmental Outcomes," was recently published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology.

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About 10 percent of Americans have some sort of sleep disorder, including sexsomnia. (Photo: Getty Images)We've all heard of sleepwalking. And there are plenty of people who talk in their sleep, or even eat in their sleep. But having sex in your sleep, and not remembering a thing about it afterward?

It's called "Sexsomnia," and yes, it happens.

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Earlier this week Andrew Machin, 40, was acquitted of raping a 21-year-old three years ago after the court determined that he had been asleep when he assaulted her. Though he agreed that the victim had been drinking and had not consented to having sex, he also argued that he had a 25-year history of sleep disorders, including having sex with his long-time partner while asleep, and he was "disgusted" when he woke up and realized what had happened.

"I just wanted to go to sleep," he told the court, crying. "I didn't know where I was when I woke up. … All I wanted to do was help her. I didn't want to hurt her. I feel disgusted."

His partner, 38-year-old Denise Jacks, told The Daily Mail that Machin has been

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Misao Okawa, 115, says the secret to a long life is to “watch out for one’s health.” Other centenarians credit everything from bacon to booze. (Photo: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)We may be obsessed with looking younger, but we're in awe of the people who live to see their 100th birthdays and beyond. To what do these centenarians attribute their long, long lives? The answers may surprise you.

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Bacon
Pearl Cantrell, 105, attributes her long and healthy life to bacon. "I love bacon, I eat it everyday," she told NBC affiliate KRBC. "I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say." Cantrell, who lives in central Texas and has outlived three of her seven children, spent her life doing hard labor outdoors; she still sews, goes to church, and goes out dancing on Saturday nights. ("It was country dancing, waltzing, and two stepping," she says.) Her most-recent birthday was a three-day-long celebration with more than 200 guests. Bacon, however, is what really kept her going; Oscar Meyer recently sent her a delivery of the smoked-and-cured meat, and she ended up riding around town in the iconic

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After you've given birth to your very own mini-me, it's hard to resist the urge to dress her like a tiny version of yourself. But fashion doesn't cross the generation gap very easily, and what may look great -- or at least acceptable -- on a child often just looks bizarre on a grown woman. And vice versa. Take a look.

Line cooks were angry over the insane details in a Craigslist help wanted ad. (Photo: Getty Images)Working as a line cook is notoriously tough, with long hours, low pay, and little downtime. An over-the-top help wanted ad posted recently on Craigslist struck a chord with tired, overworked employees everywhere for its high-maintenance demands, and quickly made international news headlines.

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The job listing for a line cook at FARMBloomington had 44 detailed requirements, including showing up early, having a good attitude, and never complaining. But it also asked that applicants "don't get defensive or act like you already know everything," "admit when you're wrong, but don't point it out when others are wrong — especially the chef," "anticipate what the chef needs next," "cook your dishes exactly as the chef taught you, the same every time," and only suggest changes "in private or phrase it so it seems like it was the chef's idea."

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Sounds too

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