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How pretending can be a form of love

My grandfather just told me the same story for the fifth time this month and instead of correcting him I started acting like I had never heard it and now we both seem happier.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes the most compassionate response is to participate in another person's reality rather than insist on objective truth.

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