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One day my job as a social worker had me sitting in a courtroom waiting for my client's case to come up on the docket.  Another case was being heard-- some ordinary thing, domestic violence or vandalism I think it was-- a car window that was broken during an argument.  A young woman was prosecuting, and she was questioning the defendant, a young African-American man, when, much to my surprise, she asked him, "Do you know the difference between the truth and a lie?"

"Yes," he answered.

Her next question was, "What happens when you tell a lie?"

After a pause, he responded, "Uh, nothing."

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