We are all capable of telling an untruth, but men seem particularly adept at it. It's as if they possess an unidentifiable cell, that neither Einstein, Freud, or any other eminent male mind, has managed to uncover. Maybe they all chose not to look. Ironically, it was another wise man who said; show me an honest man and I'll show you a liar. Sometimes little white lies are told out of love, as a mechanism of protection, but whether with good intent, or something more sinister, the results can often be the cause of irreparable suffering.
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Following the same path, her two sisters' had taken a year earlier, 18-year-old Kathleen crosses Ireland's symbolic 'bridge of tears' to go in search of
a better life.
On the road to Dublin, initiated by a sad twist of fate, she becomes dislodged from a pleasant enough seat of an ageing bus, finding herself compelled to seek the assistance of a friendly Samaritan. He eventually comes to her aide in the form of Lord George Kingsley, but not before she catches the devilish blue eyes of two others.
Marion Prince