As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

…that was Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83…If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren’t Worried Before, You...

having someone who likes you so much that they think everything you say is the truth has got to be a liar’s paradise

When I left her office, I felt like she’d gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut...