What I Mean When I Tell You “I’m Fine…”

I’m trying to do you a favour because you don’t want the truth…do you?

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As a child, I would watch people wilt when my mother responded to any form of “How are you?”

“Well, you know, things are difficult at the moment, and there’s the mortgage and the children and he left me, you know, and my back is sore and…”