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Betty  Smith

“Gently, Teacher explained the difference between a lie and a story. A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn’t tell it like it was; you told it like you thought it should have been.”

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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