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What was the last white lie you told?

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Narul Iman Driver, 15 Islamic Kasim Tuet Memorial College

A teacher talked to me in Chinese. The only words she said I could grasp were, 'Do you understand what I said?'. I nodded with a grin and said, 'Yes ...'

Marie Neirynck, 17 German Swiss International School

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I told my mum I went to bed early, but I actually stayed up finishing an assignment I'd been putting off.

Emily Tsang Long-yu, 15 Creative Secondary School

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I told a friend's cousin that she looked really cute with makeup on when she looked like an eight-year-old who had been playing with her mother's cosmetics.

Priscilla Ngai Wing Ka, 15 St Paul's School (Lam Tin)

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