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Mother Tongue
Let me take you on a lie journey, and where we end up isn’t going to be where we start. Not long ago, I had to have a conversation with one of my kids about lying. This particular lie was not one told to avoid childhood punishment. It was one of those lies told for convenience, or heehaws, or trying to keep the peace. You know the kind of lie I’m talking about. Those are the scariest brand of lies to me because they aren’t squeaked out under duress. Instead, they are the “casual lie,” and that’s what makes them so insidious. They can be difficult to detect, easy to…