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His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: Do you lie? But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

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Lois Lowry
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 20
Journalist
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Lois Ann Hammersberg
Lois James Worthy Johnson
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