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I hesitate.

I hesitate. I hesitate to begin here, but I feel the need to begin here.

It is, I'm just, so I saw this and thought it had to be a joke.

But it isn't actually a joke.

It's a real true story in the New York Times by Nick Christoph, who actually has in the past fabulized stories, believed people who made

up stories.

And he's not only done it again, but he has embraced a lie, and it is a horrible lie.

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