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My name is Sarah Barine and I'm a professor of creative nonfiction and also a journalist.

Most of my professional life I've been kind of obsessed with a central question in my

field which is how do we tell true stories and what's the relationship between truth

telling and storytelling.

And for most of the time that I've been through grappling with that question and writing

about it and thinking about it, it's been very theoretical.

But then last year in March, my wife and I suddenly discovered that she was at the

center of a series of pretty horrifying accusations.

And that experience and everything that followed afterwards changed my understanding not

only of storytelling and of truth, but also of lies.

And I wrote about all this for a piece of the New York Times magazine called The Acquisition.

And for you today, by Gabra Zachman.

We were at a friend's doctoral graduation party on a Friday night at the end of March.

I had a glass of wine in one hand and our toddler on my hip when Marta found me.

I got a really weird email, she said.

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