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Asgard Called; They Want Their Name Back

A 26-year-old woman from Puyallup, Wash., filed for a protection order against her boyfriend. Drew Thor Kidd had allegedly claimed to be a member of the Special Forces, the British Special Air Service, and the CIA. He even showed the woman a “dossier” he had collected on her, including her social security number, current and past addresses, place of employment, and where her daughter went to school. Eventually, things got even more strange, and the woman got scared. She Googled versions of his name and found a picture of Andrew Thor, 33, in a news story — identifying him as a police officer in Lake Stevens, 70 miles north of her. “When I realized everything he said was a lie and that he was capable of so much deception and had such an alternate reality, I was terrified,” she said. Another truth he was hiding from her: his marriage. After the unnamed woman filed for the protection order and an investigation was launched, Thor resigned from the department. (MS/Seattle Times) ...Another truth he was hiding from her: he’s far from “a god” in bed.