What I Learned When I Am Being Told

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As a child, I didn’t question what I was told, which on my part wasn’t the best notion. If you were to tell me that aliens exist, I would assume it was true, until I learned otherwise. As I grew, I learned that not everything everyone tells me is always true. Sometimes I have to perceive what I am being told, and deduce whether it is true or false. Being naive and callow doesn’t help when you're being told information you know nothing about.
As I was growing up, my cousins had told me a clown was under my bed, they claimed that it was waiting there until my feet dangled, and then would pull me under in the middle of the night. Not knowing it was a joke, I deduced it was true. From that day on, I never slept without looking under my bed. I

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