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It had just been a little lie this time. Well no. The lie was big enough. What he’d said had been totally untrue. If anything, Grandma was the healthiest of the whole family. Never got a cold or a tummy ache. She could still walk into town faster than Archie. He could never keep up with her -that was the trouble.

“It’s all that porter I keep drinking,” she said.

So, the lie was big enough. The reason he’d told it was quite silly. He wasn’t cheating on Amanda.

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“I like that new girlfriend of yours,” Granma had said after she’d bumped into them both last week at the shopping centre.  “She’s very pretty. And she’s well-mannered.”

So, Amanda would recognise her now. Oh, lord above.

“You lied to me,” she would say. “Your Granma’s fine. I saw her.”

Lordy, he couldn’t bear it.