“I wanted to tell you all my secrets, but you became one of them.”
– Author Unknown

“It’s my fault,” she cried. “It’s all my fault!”

Father and I had stumbled upon the scene of a vehicle fire—a pickup truck engulfed in flames on the side of a quiet country road. We were returning home from town when we noticed the commotion. A man wearing overalls stood next to a sobbing woman and a boy who appeared to be about ten years old.

“I can’t do anything right,” the woman lamented. “I do everything wrong.”

“What happened here?” Father asked.

The man, who introduced himself as a farmer from a nearby field, shrugged and gestured toward the smouldering truck. “T...

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