College Admissions Essay: The Effects Of Lying

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A person lies many times in their life, for example hiding a surprise, faking being sick to not go out, or saying that a gift was great when it wasn’t. These little lies are usually used to prevent hurting someone’s feelings or to make them feel better. Sometimes one of these little lies can progress into to something that blows up into a person's face,and it makes them wonder why they even lied in the first place. A time in which this happened to me I didn’t even realize the lie until later on when it came to blow up in my face. In the eighth grade I told my best friend that I would always keep her secrets and that she shouldn’t worry about it. At the time that was a reasonable thing to say, and I wouldn't have ever thought that this was going

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