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The Truth About Lying
Cerulean.
Forty-seven names.
He had told himself he was just doing his job.
That someone else would do it if he didn’t.
That the world was complicated.
That truth needed context.
That people couldn’t handle too much reality at once.
But Dr. Sharma had cut through all of that.
He wasn’t solving problems.
He was making it easier for dangerous people to keep being dangerous.
April 30, 2028
Henry sat on the bench, the news article glowing on his phone.
The truth had come out anyway.
Dr. Sharma had released the memos. She had testified before Congress. She had done what Henry had spent his career preventing.
She had made the truth impossible to ignore.
And it had destroyed her.
According to the article, Cerulean had sued her for breach of contract. Her license was under review. Her house was listed for sale. The final paragraph said she had checked herself into a psychiatric facility after what her lawyer called “extreme emotional exhaustion.”
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