Why do women lie to me?

Again and again, love begets betrayal.

By Cary Tennis

Mar 13, 2002 | Steeped in the rough-and-tumble spoken-word movement, boiled in punk rock, roasted in alcohol, pressure-cooked in American literature and turned like a newel post on the lathe of American journalism, Cary Tennis preaches his strange, twisted sermons for Salon Audio pretty much every week.

This week in his role as advice columnist he considers the statistically unlikely but true tale of a man who, through no apparent fault of his own, is 0 for 3 in the trust department.

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