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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 11:58 PM

Ah, That Explains It

I read the JT Leroy article this morning. Then I had to google JT Leroy and find a real article to explain to me who the hell he was. I spent the rest of the day feeling vaguely frustrated and annoyed, the fragments of the poorly written Salon article bumping around in my brain, trying to re-arrange themselves into something coherent.

So, finally, at nearly 3 a.m., I came back to the site to read the letters and see if anyone else was as confused and annoyed as I was. The first letter I saw mentioned Ayelet Waldman. I frantically paged up to see if she had indeed been the writer of the misbegotten article. Ah, sweet relief! She was! That explains it all. Now I can go to sleep.

—Claire Fontaine Read Claire Fontaine's other letters

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