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Submitted to Contest #163
“What we have in this family is a complete breakdown of honesty,” I said to my two-year-old nephew Charlie. We were on the couch in the side tv room. Charlie was on my lap, feeling my beard absentmindedly and watching Blue's Clues. I was also watching, as a mystery is a mystery, and I don’t judge. Still, my mind was elsewhere. Earlier at dinner, Charlie’s birthday party dinner, to be precise, my father-in-law asked from the head of the large table if I had seen his small fishing line pliers. (My-father-in-law was gi...
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