Choices

Looking back, she thought of it as a moment of frankness, in which she was being honest so as not to lead him on. He looked back and remembered it as a moment of cruelty, in which she had been callous to him when she could have been kind. Then again, there was this other moment, which she remembered not being so honest to spare his feelings; he remembered that as a moment of deceit and deception. The truth hurt, but so did a lie. Sometimes it seemed to her that she was stuck with no way out, between two pains. No matter what she chose, she would be accused of a crime.

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