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Talk to nicely.

It's not fair.

My fiancé, Raquel, teased, launching me into an argument I'd had at least once a day for the past six weeks.

I've shown you my messy, dramatic family.

Why won't you show me yours?

Sometimes I wish I didn't love Raquel so much.

It would have made it easier to lie to her.

I could have said that my father was an abusive drunk who

used to whip me with a belt, or that my mother was a kleptomaniac, currently incarcerated

for theft. Of course, none of that was even remotely true. My father only broke out the bottle

of dusty whiskey a few times a year when guests visited, and my mother

once walked all the way to the shops because a store clerk gave her two pennies extra in change.

Like most folks in Preston, my parents were decent, hardworking people. Apart from the long drive,

I couldn't think of a single reason for keeping Raquel away.

And yet?

And yet?

Maybe that plain, honest goodness itself was what made me so uneasy.

Rekal wasn't kidding about her family.

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