A Lesbian's Lies

"This is one of my funniest stories we've ever heard," she says. "It's so weird. I was a young queer person too like I wasn't out." 'I'm supposed to be FaceTime calling my family for the first time since I've been away for a month,' Bree recalls. "'You got to get out of the way,'" her mother told her after being asked why she lied about getting hit in the face by a kayak while they were on vacation.'Why lie? Why isn't when we lie we come up with the most specific stories as if the specificity is the awesome authenticity of the story?'"

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