Do You Like My Little Lie?

Strangers

Lea Thau

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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It’s the time of year when skeletons come out of the closet. We honor the dead, as we get ready for holidays among the living, where secrets will be spilled, and secrets will be created that will haunt us for years to come. You might describe today’s story as a classic “noir,” if it wasn’t … Continue reading Do You Like My Little Lie? →

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0:00.0	Welcome to Stringtras from KCW in Radiotopia, I'm Leah Tao.
0:06.7	And today's story has some violence, so please use discretion.
0:10.5	A classic noir, you might call it.
0:13.4	If it wasn't someone's real life, here's Claudia, seek John.
0:19.6	The house that I grew up in was actually, it's not standing anymore, was this sweet 1820s
0:26.0	house.
0:27.0	That right down on the river, and there was a little beach next door, and it was one
0:30.5	of these houses that had been added on to and added on to and added on to.
0:33.9	So lots of little nooks and crannies to hide in.
0:37.0	It was a great home.
0:41.0	My father, I have so many fond memories.
0:44.2	We had a sailboat on the Hudson, and he taught me how to sail, and we would do that together.
0:49.6	He'd always been a fly fisherman, and I was a fly fisherman, and he had been doing pottery,
0:54.8	and so I took up pottery, and I was daddy's little girl.
1:02.6	I think he always aspired to live the life of status and stature, and he always felt he
1:10.7	should have been born into that.
1:12.5	It was some sort of mistake that he wasn't born into that.
1:16.2	He moved to New York from Texas after World War II, and he wanted to be part of the social
1:21.6	scene.
1:22.6	He just would figure out where the handsome and charming people hanging out.
1:25.6	Oh, they hang out at that country club.
1:27.4	He would somehow or another get an invitation and go out there.
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