» Pathological Liars

AKA the danger of meeting people off the internet
I got to know this girl through an internet message board. She seemed to be going through a bit of a hard time, marriage troubles, losing her twin brother in a car crash, that sort of thing. She seemed quite fun and normal though so I quite happily agreed to meet up with her when she came to stay with a mutual friend nearby. Shortly before she came down she asked some of us on the board if we'll help us with a surfer's funeral style ashes scattering for her brother when she came to stay. Knowing how much she needed friends at the time we all agreed.
So we all met up, went through the rather traumatic experience of scattering a load of ashes at a remote beach (and the hideous moment when half of them blew back over her) saw her for a few drinks later in the week and thought little more of it.

We were more than a little surprised a few weeks later when her supposedly-dead brother starts posting on the messageboard. Turns out he wasn't dead, there was no carcrash, and she wasn't having marriage troubles.
What I really want to know though is:
a. WTF was in the jar of ashes?
b. Was it true she wrote porn for a living, because she was pretty good at it if not?!
(Fri 30th Nov 2007, 17:33, More)