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Telling a beautiful lie to disguise an unpleasant truth is like putting a mask on to cover the face. The mask never lasts - it has to come off sometime. The lie is a false beauty and eventually begins to rot, exposing it and the truth all at once. Now. There is certainly a way to speak the truth that is a bit ugly - you don't have to be ugly when you speak it - but let us not shrink back from truth. In the end telling that "beautiful lie" does us and the others a disservice and causes more hurt than was necessary. 

Here are some articles discussing today's #WordWednesday thought:
"The Truth Hurts" is a Lie
Speaking a Truth that Hurts

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