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“I wasn’t that bad, was I?”
“Oh, you were that bad. Really bad.
Worse, even.”
Eduardo looks suitably ashamed,
while the rather insensitive Sheila
seems oblivious.
“But,” says Sheila, “you can fix it.
You can do better.… Have you ever
heard of Toastmasters?”
Sheila, a young and attractive brunette,
hauls Eduardo to a Toastmasters
meeting. There she volunteers to perform
an exercise called “Truth or Lie,”
in which she’s supposed to tell the
group of fifteen-odd participants a story
about her life, after which they decide
whether or not to believe her.
“I bet I can fool everyone,” she whispers
to Eduardo sotto voce as she
marches to the podium. She spins an
elaborate tale about her years as an opera
singer, concluding with her
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