Let me tell you a little story about dedication. When I was a kid, I was on a soccer team. Well, I was kind of a bitch and taunted the other kids. Eventually one of the parents called my mom and complained that I was bullying her child. My mom defended me saying I would never do anything like that, and I told her that everything was a lie and the girls on the team were ganging up against me and basically turned myself into the victim. She believed me and my parents were totally on my side.

I was so dedicated to this lie that I even wrote a few fake diary entries about how I was getting bullied during soccer practice and that girls were making things up about me, just in case my mom read my diary. Then when family members were around I would tell them while my mom was within earshot, the same things about how my reputation was being tarnished etc.

It worked. I never looked back.

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