Speaking as a student entering college next year, I don't want to be taught that what happened to her is true, when it never happened. If it happened to someone else, she should have written about them. I want a well-rounded education, but I don't want to be taught lies. Truth based on lies is no truth. We realize that man makes honest mistakes, but a deliberate lie is just wrong.
Truth has no gray area.
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