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When I was six years old, my sister, Sally Kay, was a submissive three-year-old girl. For some reasons, I thought we needed to    1   some money. So I decided we should "hire out" as maids. We visited the neighbors,    2   to clean houses for them for $1.    3   our offer was reasonable, there were no takers. One neighbor even    4   my mom to tell her what we were doing.      Mother had just hung up the phone    5   we came into the house. "Girls," mother asked, "why were you two    6   the neighborhood telling people you would clean their houses?" We both denied. That her dear little girls could be such "boldfaced (厚顏無恥的) liars" made her feel shocked and terribly    7   . Mom then told us that Mrs. Jones had just called and told her everything.      Faced with the truth, we    8   what we had done. Mom tried to explain how much a fib (小謊) hurt     9   she didn't feel that we really understood. Then Mom cheerfully asked, "Would you two like to go to see the movie The Matinee this afternoon?"       "Oh, wonderful!" After lunch, we got bathed and all    10   up.  It was like getting ready for a birthday party. We   11  outside the apartment, not wanting to miss the    12  that would take us downtown. At the bus station, Mom stunned (使震驚) us by saying, "Girls, we are not going to the    13   today."      "What?" we objected    14   . "What do you mean? Aren't we going to The Matinee?" She explained this was how much a fib could hurt. "It is important that what we say is    15   ," Mom said. "I fibbed to you just now and I felt   16   . I don't want to fib again and I'm    17  you don't want to fib again either. People  must be    18   to others."      That was    19   my sister and I learned to be truthful. It was a(n)   20  that we would never forget.

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