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Dana Chivvis

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This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Syria believes in you. It's the same photo from Amina's blog post titled Irony.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Syria believes in you. It's the same photo from Amina's blog post titled Irony.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

That's a smoking gun. Like, you never get that clear of an answer. Totally. Totally. Yeah. So they got to call Britta, but they can't find Britta's phone number. But they do find Britta's mom's phone number. They call her up.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

That's a smoking gun. Like, you never get that clear of an answer. Totally. Totally. Yeah. So they got to call Britta, but they can't find Britta's phone number. But they do find Britta's mom's phone number. They call her up.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

One of those husbands. What they learned about Tom. He's 40 years old, a Middle East fanatic, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestine conflict. He's getting his master's degree at the University of Edinburgh. There's more.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

One of those husbands. What they learned about Tom. He's 40 years old, a Middle East fanatic, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestine conflict. He's getting his master's degree at the University of Edinburgh. There's more.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Okay, one last important detail about Tom's extracurricular activities.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Okay, one last important detail about Tom's extracurricular activities.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

She's not just writing lesbian erotica. She's on dating sites. She's had an online girlfriend in Canada for the last six months. The girlfriend started one of the Facebook campaigns to free Amina.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

She's not just writing lesbian erotica. She's on dating sites. She's had an online girlfriend in Canada for the last six months. The girlfriend started one of the Facebook campaigns to free Amina.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

LesGetReal.com, for those of you who don't remember the sapphic offerings of the internet in the year 2011, was a website where a variety of writers blogged about lesbianism and the lesbian news of the day. Amina had written a bunch on LesGetReal.com, and the founder, Paula Brooks, had encouraged her to start a gay girl in Damascus that winter. And, Paula told Liz, they'd had a little online fling.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

LesGetReal.com, for those of you who don't remember the sapphic offerings of the internet in the year 2011, was a website where a variety of writers blogged about lesbianism and the lesbian news of the day. Amina had written a bunch on LesGetReal.com, and the founder, Paula Brooks, had encouraged her to start a gay girl in Damascus that winter. And, Paula told Liz, they'd had a little online fling.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

And this is over email or they're like?

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

And this is over email or they're like?

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Liz explained to Paula what was going on with Amina.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Liz explained to Paula what was going on with Amina.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Yeah.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

Yeah.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

LesGetReal.com posted an apology to readers for publishing 19 articles Amina had supposedly written. Time to confront Tom. Liz reaches him on the phone. He's on vacation with his wife in Istanbul. And They're laughing a lot.

This American Life
855: That’s a Weird Thing to Lie About

LesGetReal.com posted an apology to readers for publishing 19 articles Amina had supposedly written. Time to confront Tom. Liz reaches him on the phone. He's on vacation with his wife in Istanbul. And They're laughing a lot.