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2 Truths and 1 Lie

Have you ever played that game before?

Terry L. Cooper
6 min readSep 8, 2022
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The game is as easy as it sounds. Someone tells you three things about themselves. Two things are the truth but one thing is a lie. Your job is to detect the lie. Here’s the thing though. I’m not letting you off that easy.

Welcome to 6 short stories of which they could all be true, all be lies, or any combination thereof. HAVE FUN!!!

Story #1: I was the quarterback for the junior high all girl’s football team

It was the 1970s so girls playing any sport other than the time-honored traditions of tennis or field hockey was unheard of. I don’t know who came up with the brilliant idea of having an all-girls (tag of course) football as that information has long vacated my memory banks. I just knew I wanted in.

Somehow I ended up as the quarterback. I had a great defensive front line. Some of those girls were as big as some of the guys on the “regular” football team. I had a heck of an arm and why shouldn’t I? I played softball, center field specifically, at a time when it was just “center”. There was no left center and right center. You covered the entire freakin’ ballfield.

So being the quarterback was a piece of cake for me. Plus I had wheels. I could run. I was a jock in my…

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