WORK IN PROGRESS: Truthful Lies, a Novel
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Is it better to live in a beautiful lie or the ugly truth?
I'm not so sure anymore. Not now after finding myself on the other side of beautiful lies.
There was a time I thought I was the one - HIS one.
Turns out, I'm only second . . .
. . . to her.
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