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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:00 AM

I was conned by JT Leroy

I talked to him on the phone for hours. I even listened to his therapy sessions on tape. And after one particularly weird conversation about his upcoming sex-change operation, I decided he was a fake. So why did I still get sucked in?
By Ayelet Waldman

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:34 AM

    And the point of all of this is...?

    Unlike some others who have responded on this, I am paying for this drivel (a decision I'll have to rethink, since I agree with a previous writer that Salon's quality is in decline as of late). And drivel is precisely what it is. Has there ever been a more self-involved yet utterly meaningless story written? It could have been summed up--much less painfully--as follows:

    I am a dupe.

    I know that I am a dupe.

    I don't care that I am a dupe.

    It's no big deal that I've been duped, since others have been as well.

    Because I think it's no big deal to have been duped, it should not be a big deal to anyone else that they've been duped as well.

    My husband is clearly much smarter than I am.

    That this pointless blather was even considered a story is puzzling; that it was the TOP STORY is utterly ridiculous.

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