Lies, First Person

PROLOGUEYou should never believe writers, even when they pretend to be telling the truth. Everything that’s written here is pure fiction

My husband urged me to make this clear at the outset if I intended to tell this story. The version he proposed was somewhat different, as a matter of fact very different, but in any case I promised him to write this introduction.

My husband Oded is a lawyer. He adores me, our children, and our way of life; and I, who love and respect him profoundly, am ready to accept his advice. And to dispose of any doubt let me stress:

None of the characters that appear here, myself included, are real. The first person is not my person, and the events recorded here never happened to me or to anyone I know.

The truth is that nothing bad was done to anyone, and I did nothing bad, and I was always as quiet as a mouse.

In short, the truth is that nothing happened at all.

Perhaps it only could have happened.