The Truth Set Me Free I shook severely. Every nerve in my body tingled, but not a good tingle, not an orgasmic tingle, but a heavy, sandy tingle. It ran deep through my veins, my body stiffened like a drying cement walk way. I felt nauseous; like my insides no longer safely rested in me, but started making there way up my throat. I tried to take a deep breath, but my lips would not …showed first 75 words of 2163 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2163 total…I finally finished, they just sat there silent. Not stirring, twitching, or glancing to each other for reassurance. They just sat there now expressionless. I told the truth and it seemed to break my parents. They did not appear mad, or upset, or afraid anymore. They died inside. Even if they tried I do not think they would have known how to respond. I thought to myself, "The truth freed me, but paralyzed my parents..."