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"I lied for your benefit, although I admit that it was a half-baked lie. I thought that perhaps you'd want to forget that you were so vulnerable around me, so I tried to give you an alternate story to go with." Anthony says with half a grin. "Now," he asks, "are you ready to face the facts?"
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Kijani shrugged. "Better you than anyone else. They'd give me pity. At least you allow me some semblance of pride." She sighed at his question. "I... I just have to know why. Why she could do it. How she could do it." And where had the lie began? Had her grandmother ever cared? Had it all been some long-term game for her? "I... I have to contact her. Face her down with the truth. See if she tries to wiggle her way out, or if she'll level with me." There had to be some explanation. "Hey, Anthony..." She was going to ask what was in it for him, what she now owed him for this veritable fount of information. But she didn't want to know just yet. One set of bad news at a time. She sighed, and switched her question. "You don't happen to have anything to eat around this place, do you?"