Dear Sugar: How Do I Stop Lying?

Published: June 29, 2015, 8:22 a.m.

The Sugars take on a letter from a young woman who is a habitual liar \u2014 telling her friends about imagined experiences of rape and loss. The lying always seems to happen at a moment of emotional connectedness, when the letter writer wishes to share her feelings of sadness and depression, but struggles to find the right language to do so.