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"I learned that if you're going to make memory interesting," says playwright Cusi Cram, "you kind of have to make it into a story, inevitably altering the truth in some way."

Cram is talking about her play A Lifetime Burning, which is currently being given its world premiere at Off-Broadway's Primary Stages.

The plot is loosely inspired by the literary scandal surrounding Margaret Seltzer, who in 2008 wrote a fictionalized account of her life as a half-white, half-Native American foster child growing up as a Bloods gang member in South Central Los Angeles, and passed it off as a memoir — before being called out as a fraud by her own sister.

The production stars Jennifer Westfeldt as Emma, a trust fund kid who trades truth for a hefty advance, and Christina Kirk as her angry sister, who may or may not expose her.

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When the Seltzer tale broke, Cram happened to be taking a course on writing memoirs, so the tale struck a chord. "There was so much crazy in that story. It sort