I loved this delightful story detailing the way a lie can take on a life of its own. If you ever played "gossip" when you were younger--a game in which a sentence is whispered to a person, who passes it own to the next, until it has circled the room--you will know that the sentence the last person hears seldom has any resemblance to the original. I thought of the game when I was reading this story.

It is quite humorous, made me laugh aloud at least once, and yet it is a warning for the last sentence struck me as quite profound. A lie can have a life of its own. ( )