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Chapter Sixteen
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2024-10-29 19:42:56It is easy for Bradley to be honest, it is difficult for him to lie.
Years ago, he would have easily said that it was impossible for him to lie, as he found it limiting in the way that he could handle the future. Lying almost always led to more lying.
Examples of how difficult Bo found lying can be carefully observed in the way that he told the first boy that he had ever liked that he was in love with him. Of course, at the time he was eleven years old and did not understand the concept of sexuality or love, and to some extent he still does not.
Another example followed this situation, when he told his parents that he had a date, though it could be barely called that as he was only eleven and could not drive himself
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