We agonised. We argued over what to say.
Should, could we, burden them with truth?
Or lie, and say it ran away.
That way lies peace, for us.
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Nice writhe-making parental point. Hindus, I believe, say that we should avoid speaking the unpleasant truth and the pleasant untruth...