My Glamorous Life: A Good Lie

For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD.

In my doctor’s office, there is a framed school writing assignment his child completed during 2nd or 3rd Grade.

It’s a fill-in-the-blank story where she has hand written answers to different data fields, like “My father is really good at….”

For “My father’s favorite food is,” the kid had written SALAD.

I asked him, “Is salad really your favorite food, or is that just what you told your daughter?”

“It’s just what I told her,” he admitted with a smile.

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