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Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets

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Revelations, Regret, Relief: Nine Books With Big Secrets
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My daughter turned four this summer, and it’s been a strangely riveting experience watching her grapple with the morality of secrets at this developmental milestone. I repeatedly remind my daughter that she’s “safe to be honest about anything.” When she sees me and my partner quietly conferring in the kitchen or catches us spelling something out so she can’t understand, she’ll yell, “That’s NOT nice, no secrets!” And yet, when her cousin comes over to play, they’ll whisper pure gibberish in each

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