The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out

by William Dameron

He was an Italian in a land of echoes.

“Honey, did I tell you about the time I did LSD with my friend Angie from high school? Her mother opened the door to her bedroom, and Angie shouted, ‘Shit, it’s my mother!’ I said, ‘That’s not your mother; it’s a big crow!’ We started screaming and throwing pillows at her, trying to shoo her away.”

Group therapy is like online dating, becoming intimate with strangers to avoid suffering alone.