...Lies Summary: Josephine is a 10 year old girl, who is living with her father Joe and her mother Ettie. Her best friend Joanna lives next door with her single mother Maxine. One Sunday at lunch, her father’s brother Roger visits and moves into their house, as he is tired of being in the navy, and would like an office job like his brother. Josephine’s father arrange that his wife should help Roger gaining better manners and a better English, and when she doesn’t hear it, he winks and recommend Roger to ask out their neighbour Maxine, whom he personally assures is a real lady. The mother and Roger are sitting together on the porch every day as she teaches him manners, and he manages to make her laugh, even though she usually just smiles. One day Josephine comes home from school and finds her mother alone, while hearing Roger laughing at Maxine’s porch. The mother asks weather Roger has ever taken liberties with her, and to please her mother Josephine says yes, and also states that she would like him to leave. To help her parents get rid of Roger, she tells him that her mother is pregnant, and he leaves shortly after. After a while the mother gives birth to a baby boy which they name Terence, and Josephine tells her father that the child belongs to Roger. At school, she writes an essay about her family and how things changed after Terence was born, and she is called to the teacher who wants her to admit that she story is a lie, and she tells him she made it all up. Character...
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