My first gf had accidentally dropped
a housemate's aquarium. Made a terrible
mess. He was yelling at her, and she came
up with this fib that her sister had just died.
Later, as details were asked, it came out that
'twas her twin sister (her actual one called, or
something, setting some questions in motion).
She never told the people she was living with
(with whom she was fairly good friends). Indeed,
she expanded the story, when I was asking her about
it, to include sex with her twin, as well as playing tricks
on one another's boy friends, by swapping.
Eventually, I saw some discontinuities, and was able
to get the whole truth out of her. What makes people
lie like this?
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