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"I'm sorry I kicked you earlier," said Frieda.
"It's okay," I said. "I did make you naked out in public."
"Yeah. But I'm pretty sure you're a good kid. You could've turned around when I checked my 'blondness,' but you didn't. Hell, you could've left me a little girl and sent me to an orphanage where anyone I told my story to would think I was crazy. But you didn't."
"I wouldn't do that to you."
"I know that, now. But before you -- bared me -- I'd just had a really bad meeting with someone in my life, someone who was lying and was proud of it. So, I came up with this idea.
"Could you wish that someone would grow a tail if they lied? And it would get longer if they kept lying?"
"Like Pinocchio's nose? Sure. Who do you want this to happen to?"
Frieda smiled and said ..