DENIAL: Prepare a five-minute story about denial. From deliberate ignorance (Look the other way!) to full-out, loony blind eye to the truth (No one will notice my missing front tooth/my teenage daughter is a virgin/my bald spot isn't visible.) Skimming the truth, delusions and revisionist history too. And this year, I will stick with my New Year resolution. No really. I will. Totally. Shut. Up. I'm serious this time!

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