1. The Importance of Being Honest
... a good lie and run with it. "Aunt Ruby, I told April that I would go to the movies with her, but I would rather go to Jessica's house and go to the mall with her." "Tell April you're sick," she would say. And most often I would. But I didn't seem blessed with her lack of principles. On many occasions April ... would find out that I really went to Jessica's house and to the mall without her. These occasions taught me that it is more painful to be caught in a lie than to tell the truth in the first place. I wondered how it was possible ... that I had just learned so painfully and so...
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- Grade Level: High School