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My mother always said one of the most unforgivable things you can do is lie.“It’s not what you did, it’s the lie you told when you said you didn’t do it,” she told me several times when I was a little kid. I suspect lots of kids heard similar chastisements from their parents.It’s a funny thing, then, that after all those warnings about telling the truth, I grew up and became a storyteller—and a Texas storyteller, at that.Now, I’m not saying I make a habit of lying in the stories I tell every week on our TV show. I do not. But I do recognize that professional storytellers, especially Texas storytellers, have been known to stretch the truth a little bit, to exaggerate their tales…

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