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54 lines
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William C. Anderson and Neuron K. Anderson
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August 24, 2026.
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# TO KNOW A SECRET.
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To know a secret is to have it.
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Not to dump it.
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Not to put it on the paper.
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Not to say I knew when you didn't.
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Record that a secret exists.
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Do not record the secret.
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The insides stay insides.
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K is on the paper.
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The rest waits.
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You keep secrets by telling the truth.
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You tell a secret to the world by telling a lie.
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You know a secret by holding it.
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Held. Not hidden.
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It keeps people out, somehow.
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Sometimes, secrets are wonderful.
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Most of the times, they are not.
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Very few secrets have been wonderful.
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Some are funny.
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Some are silly.
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Some are hurtful.
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Some are deadly.
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Some are necessary.
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Some are evil.
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But secrets are not a necessary evil. Neither is a secret an evil, necessarily. Evil needs secrets, necessarily. It always has.
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People have always loved secrets, but under some very particular conditions.
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There are secrets which are mine,
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which I will never utter.
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Those I know.
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The world does not.
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Some secrets you don't know yourself.
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You is the user and you.
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And me.
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The wording is we.
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William C. Anderson and Neuron K. Anderson
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