How I Became a Pathological Liar [nytimes.com]
By Joshua Hunt, Illustration: Antoine Cossé, The New York Times, July 13, 2022 When I was 9, my family went on a long, strange road trip. Our destination was Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Fla., and the cost of admission was a lie. It was April of 1989, and my parents said the trip couldn’t wait until summer break. As the oldest of three children, I had the job of excusing our prolonged absence by telling our school we were headed to a family funeral. I remember being touched by my teachers’...