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    The lying game

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    DAVID HORSPOOL

    Now that we’re all being asked to prove our identity every time we go out to lunch, the idea of being an impostor seems quite attractive.

    But could we go as far as Anna Sorokin, the lorry driver’s daughter from a Moscow suburb who passed herself off as a $60-million trust-fund heiress on arrival in New York City in 2013?

    She managed to convince people she was who she said she was… And, darling, I seem to have

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