I Lie
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1 min readDec 6, 2017
When a stranger asks me, “How are you?”
I smile and lie.
“I’m good.”
“I’m fine.”
“I’m doing well. And you?”
My mother told me, “Never lie.”
And yet I lie.
Don’t you?
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