“I felt so guilty that I stopped talking to my entire friend group from that job, eventually moved out of that town completely, and changed the industry I worked in so I didn’t have to see anyone. Even now, 15 years later, whenever I run into one of them when I go back to visit they ask how I’m doing and I keep up the lie. It’s wild how one lie I told when I was young changed the entire course of my life.”
—Anonymous, Minnesota