“and all the others. But that isn’t true. Lies come in a lot of different colors. White lies are the kind that protect other people’s feelings. Yellow lies are the ones that tell only part of a story; they leave things out. Then there are pink lies; the pink ones exaggerate. Green ones invent. Little kids like to use them. (“I saw a dinosaur yesterday. It made a nest in my yard.”) Blue lies are the ones that people use when they’re desperately trying to get out of trouble: “I didn’t rob that bank. Really. I don’t know where those bags of money came from.” And there are red and purple and orange lies. Gwen and I made the colors up. We sat down one day and wrote up a chart. That was before I turned into a liar myself. And of course the first few lies I told were all about Gwen. It became pretty clear during the next few days that I was stuck with my little busybody cousin. It didn’t matter whether I was on vacation or whether I said I didn’t babysit. Liam and Austin were always at work (...so were Celia and Ellen); Phoebe was busy with the baby (and had volunteered to entertain Edmund every morning, wearing him out so that he would take a nap every afternoon); and Nenna was usually cooking or doing some kind of housework.MoreLessShow More Show Less
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