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Never knew this quote existed... but it hits deep.
When I was a child, some of us found ourselves tangled in situations we had no easy way out of... ugly, inescapable truths that a few others knew about. We didn’t have the power to erase what had happened, nor could we convince those who knew to forget. So we did the next best thing: we polluted the truth. Not to make people see them as liars, not to discredit their voices, no, that would have been too direct, too crude. It was panic. A reflex. We drowned the truth in so many conflicting versions, so many whispers and contradictions, that no one could tell what was real anymore. And in that confusion, we found safety.
Because even as children, we understood something that most people never quite articulate: people move on from lies quicker than they forgive the truth.
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