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Jerry's Lying: A Short Story
She was shocked, did Jerry really lied to her all along. I needed to talk to him. Poor boy, how long did he go without a mom. But why, why would he lie about his mother. I went back to the cabin. Could it be possibly the reason he was lying was because he wanted a mother so bad that he pretended to have one. I couldn't stop thinking about it. The next day jerry came to chop some wood, as he usually did, but today was his last time working for me for the next day, I was going to head to Florida. Maybe he wasn't lying, maybe he saw me as a mother figure. I couldn't just leave him here. I asked him if he ever been to Florida. "No I haven't, what made you bring up this question any way" he said. Oh nothing. Later, that day and I just came
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