My Name Is Domingo and I’m a Compulsive Liar

An honest look at a life of lies

Domingo Cullen
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readDec 16, 2019

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The first conversation I ever had with my girlfriend began with a lie.

It was the most electric conversation I’d had all year. I stood in the bathroom of a strange flat one night in late December with my phone nuzzling my right ear as a brief pause allowed in the muffled chatter from the main room…

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