I’m living a lie

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Cary,

I have read your column religiously for the last two or three years and want to truly thank you for sharing your insight. I'm not sure even where to start about my situation. In truth, I lied, and not a little white lie but a big compounding nine-year lie. I have never told anyone about this lie because it seems so psychotic.

For starters, I'm an orphan and grew up in the state foster-care system. I was adopted mid-childhood by a woman who adopts and fosters children as her only source of income. This being said she was never a parent but a paid caregiver to an ever-changing array of children. I lived in a town that was small enough that everyone I came into contact with knew my story. I was "The Orphan." This fact defined my life for 18 years.

I dreamed of moving away and going to college from an early age. In my mind college was the place where I could start over and no one would know that I was "The Orphan," no one would have their parents around, and I would just be a normal person. Turns out that was anything but the truth.

Shia LaBeouf exits his Broadway play after “creative differences”

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:56:00 +0000

Shia LaBeouf won't be treading the boards this spring after all.

The actor, who was set to star alongside Alec Baldwin in "Orphans," has left the production, according to a press release issued by the producers.

The release reads: "Due to creative differences, the producers of 'Orphans' and Shia LaBeouf will be parting ways and he will not be continuing with the production. An announcement on the replacement for the role of 'Treat' will be made shortly." The production is still slated to open on April 7.

LaBeouf has published screenshots of several emails apparently exchanged between himself and other members of the production to his Twitter account. These include an emailed apology from LaBeouf to Baldwin for "a disagreeable situation," in which LaBeouf writes: "A man can tell you he was wrong. That he did wrong... He can apologize, even if sometimes it's just to put an end to the bickering."

"I don't have an unkind word to say about you," writes "AB" in an email back to LaBeouf, noting, "I've been through this before."

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I’m living a lie

Shia LaBeouf exits his Broadway play after “creative differences”