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

by William Dameron

Was it possible to be an unhappy father and still raise a happy child, or did shame make my love poison?

Without sadness, happiness cannot exist. On that day, Linda and Debra would cry for the Bill they could not rescue and for the one that they did.

DDF, LTR, VGL, GWM, BDSM, Hung, Top, and Bottom—and the list went on. Drop a fork on the keyboard and whatever letters appeared were probably a valid acronym or term.

Lol soooo true! A of it!!!!

After a lifetime of straight conditioning, we needed to work out what it meant to be authentic.

And what exactly is it to be authenic?

It’s easy to secure machines; they don’t have emotions—yet—but humans do. We’re malleable. We’re riddled with holes.

the data taken from her included hope, love, fear, and compassion. These emotions and others are the valuable currency—the bitcoins—

Forgiveness is not given to help the one who hurt you, but to navigate through the pain in order to free yourself.

We are not the first generation of queer people who have found ourselves trapped in a straight marriage, but please God, let us be the last. In a world filled with hate and lies propagated by the Trump administration, living the truth is a form of resistance and persistence.