How To Use Pretending In A Sentence

Advertisers pretending to be private individuals will be liable to prosecution.
But it means you get this style of performance across the board that is people inhabiting characters rather than pretending to be people. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, a small number of participants discussed their experiences with gender-bending - that is, pretending to be of the opposite sex - during an online sexual encounter.
She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
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Jagang didn't want her slipping out of their snare by hiding in crowds of people, or escaping by pretending to be a lowly washwoman. The Pillars of Creation
Start the jug swinging and try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug while pretending to be a plane.
Stephen draws a parallel between someone who would spy while pretending to be a friend, and what Matthew did to Absalom.
Is there a parallel between taking up a storekeepers time by pretending to shop and ask prices for items we know we will not buy and dating the opposite sex with no intention of a committed relationship?
Rule two, stop pretending you got engaged to my kid brother for anything but his money.
One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.
And if the neighbour dares to try and poke his nose in, pretending to wish me many happy returns when all he really wants is a good snoop around, he'll wish he hadn't.
One other thing I took out of the film was that here was someone shown to some extent to be a fake, he was pretending to be an Indian, and I took a broader lesson.
You're pretending to be asleep.
I just wanted to be absolutely clear on this because I've gotten a number of emails castigating me for pretending that.
But in social security the biggest scam is people pretending to have a disability that they do not have, rather than assuming another name.
Show some spunk . Quit pretending you're being abused.
And I'd no hope of pretending to be from a semicivilized community which they had trade relations with .. There Will Be Time
Today, Total Defense Research Team was informed of new ransomware circulating among Italian users, pretending to be an official statement by the Italian Police.
People covered the streets, merrily strolling along, pretending nothing had happened at the local pub just minutes earlier.
He tricked his way into her home by pretending to be a policeman.
• The rally has also been rightly criticized for pretending to be non-political while talking in apocalyptical terms about the country going in the wrong direction under the current administration. David Coates: The Hijacking of the Almighty
Jeff asked Rev. Brett if he'd been "sandbagging" challenges, pretending to be a nothing, and then suddenly turning it on in this final push. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa Finale: A Confederacy of Douches.
I'm not pretending that the switch is going to be all magic, that the first day in the studio not as a dancer is going to be easy.
Sorry, but pretending that any American auto manufacturer is healthy is delusional, stupid and ridiculous. Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
The 6ft 4in tall former basketball player is assisted by a man pretending to deliver art supplies. Times, Sunday Times
This place bears evidence of having been ruled over by some chief pretending to Hindooism. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Keep pretending that a scold is the same as a reasoned argument, however, I can guarantee that you will help usher in the very era of protectionism that you seem so fearful of. Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Weird “Advice” of Jacob Weisberg
Pretending to be a convert is a very old and dishonest trick, I for one am not falling for it. Think Progress » VIDEO: Sen. Levin and Fox Anchor in On-Air Scuffle Over Iraq Plan
While pretending to create a kind of police force, he militarized his formations and transformed them into a professional military body.
Even so, Hague has offered to host a conference on the matter and at Munich gave among examples of internet attacks on "British interests" his own staff and a defence contractor being hit by "Zeus" malware that evaded defences by pretending to come from the White House. William Hague reveals hacker attack on Foreign Office in call for cyber rules
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. Alexander Pope
There was really no point in pretending that she didn't desire him with equal intensity.
`Not pretending to be what I'm not: noble, or worthy of exemption. FAMILY PICTURES
He had to email and call people pretending to be from hotels they had used asking for payment. The Sun
I looked at the aisles of Oreos and Clorox cleaner, pretending to shop, but window-shopping at a gas station minimart, I found out, was nearly impossible. The Adults
If, in the final analysis, it's really just a jolly good opportunity for a piss-up and a social then why not stop pretending and just call it that? Archive 2007-07-01
But really, Michael Ignatieff is supposed to be able to "do better" by pretending to be a comfie casual dude in his demin shirt in front of a tree. Another Mediocre Liberal Ad
The conductor told us to lock the cabins and not let anyone inside unless he told us to because thieves pretending to be police quite often preyed on the sleeping cars parked in the sidetracks.
That's why for every 50-year-old man in a ponytail and tight jeans, there's a 50-year-old woman in a Jaeger twinset a few paces behind, pretending she's not with him.
He was plainly and unpretendingly dressed in a suit of dark gray, and I stepped right up to him and said: "Mr. President, is this you? Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege"
Although they are pretending hard to be young, grey hair and cellulite give them away.
We'd better pretend to get prepared by pretending we have a super-duper laser beam bomb annihilator thingy. Hullabaloo
A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around ￡20,000 out of desperate sick people.
You won't be able to resist the urge to sing along pretending your hairbrush is a microphone. They sing, you sing, let's all sing!
The Nutcracker — but not any of the chopped-down, bowdlerized, amputated versions pretending to be the real story. In the dead of winter «
Every magician has a trick that goes wrong, but you can turn this to your advantage by pretending it was deliberate and making the audience laugh.
The same course he adopted with those that held Hispalis, who at first, pretending to be willing, had accepted a garrison from him, but later massacred the soldiers that had come there, and entered upon a course of warfare. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
You're just pretending that you're asleep.
I'm not sure why this thing not being a game changer is important: with the remaining number of primaries a big-margin victory in each of those primaries is of an extreme importance to Hillary, so it was the game changer in a way that it says loud and clear "Hillary, stop pretending that you can win. Obama, Clinton aides spin primary results
He's not asleep - he's just pretending.
Look, I know the Conservatives are busy pretending they believe in anthropogenic global warming to appeal to the centre-left, but spare me. 2008 August 13 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
So please, stop pretending that the motivations for this are inexplicable.
Beth rolled her eyes at her, then put up an imaginary microphone, pretending that she was a game show host.
No one was pretending the new numbers were anywhere near as good as the old favourites. Times, Sunday Times
There's just something about a bunch of people charging around the woods with plastic swords pretending to kill/be monsters that makes me hug myself with glee.
All my life, I've only been pretending. Without me, his world will go on turning. A world that's full of happiness that I have never known.
Day visited Sir Norman at his nursing home last year and said that despite his failing health, he remembered pretending to stumble after receiving his knighthood from the Queen in 2000, asking: "Do you remember when I tripped? Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95
We can't just go on pretending that everything is OK.
And no matter where she is sleeping or pretending to sleep, whether it be in our bed, on top of me, in a bassinet beside the bed, or in her crib all the way over in her own room, I am having to re-train my body to sleep.
I did my best to ignore him, which wasn't easy since he kept sneaking sidelong glances at me and then pretending he hadn't been.
One of the nice things about this world is that, when the screwers talk to the screwed, they've abandoned the current pretense of pretending it's for the screwed's own good.
I suppose that when I saw Dora in the garden and pretended not to see her, and rode past the house pretending to be anxiously looking for it, I committed two small fooleries which other young gentlemen in my circumstances might have committed — because they came so very natural to me. David Copperfield
The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments. Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses.
I felt angry with them for being so upbeat and pretending that nothing had happened.
It appears that the administration will attempt to finesse this problem by the blatant expedient of pretending the borrowing never happened.
A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.
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Njorl Says, ignoring what is well known about bargaining and pretending that the labor market is in all respects similar to the market for brocoli, on January 8th, 2010 at 5: 26 pm: Matthew Yglesias » The Revenue Deadlock
In the same time period, NBC's little show that could, Chuck (8/7c), finds the title hero on a personal mission, tracking down his MIA spy mom (Linda Hamilton, very badass) while pretending to give up the spy game. The New Season in Review: Monday Madness
The charge of inspiring prophets with false messages is founded, pretendingly, upon 1st Kings 22: 22, 23, Jeremiah 4: 10, and Ezekiel 14: The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880
I'm tired of war mongering, racist, ignorant, thieving, brain washed, Blue Dogs, fake Dems, corporate villain Republicans pretending to be Christians. House Dem to switch to Republican Party
It would have been awkward with them parading around pretending to be chickens or robots. The Sun
She buried her head under the covers, pretending to be asleep.
The question was, what was the mimic octopus pretending to be?
Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder.
I'm not convinced they saw through my ruse of pretending to photograph someone else.
Martin looked at me, pretending to be highly affronted, but the other cashier chose this moment to intervene.
You can build your own theories about why that wall is there, but it is and there's no point pretending otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
Some plantation families tried desperately to maintain their traditional lifestyle by pretending they still had slaves.
I think it's cool that the tees just say "bastardly" and not "bastardly. com" That way I can go around pretending to be a badass. Moejackson - Bastardly News & Gossip
He rather belabors the point on those occasions when Tom experiences empathy for others an emotion which he describes as feeling sorry for himself while pretending to be someone else, and really, Portman is being more than a little disingenuous when a kid whose vocabulary includes the word 'callipygian' can't put a name to empathy when he experiences it. King Dork by Frank Portman
He threw his arms in the air pretending he was in a real game and he was the star.
That impersonality is the essence of war and the Thiepval Memorial attempts to disguise that fact by pretending to commemorate persons.
So we can't presume forgiveness means pretending that there is no harm. Christianity Today
He didn't even really mind having to make cute remarks or pretending to toddle and lisp. THE ROGUES' REUNION
Inside, Lewis was half-heartedly pretending to clean up, brushing things to one side with a dishcloth and humming tunelessly to himself.
For it is part of a wider trend of pretending that there are easy answers to complex social and political problems. Times, Sunday Times
We're pretending this whole love thing to save both of our careers because of a horrible mistake.
Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
January roared at them now, pretending - they assumed - to berate them while she created a pass key to open the door.
No one was pretending the new numbers were anywhere near as good as the old favourites. Times, Sunday Times
Brooke rolled her eyes and deliberately turned her back to him, pretending to be suddenly engrossed in a fascinating conversation with Jane.
As we made camp well into our fourth night on the road, I curled up into a little ball, pretending to sleep until I was sure all the others were slumbering.
So I ate my way through the vending machines, drank coffee, read Vanity Fair while pretending to telemarket, and watched time not fly. Candy bars, selling cars and satan
And so on Sunday night as he rewashed the dishes, I sat banished on the big armchair pretending to watch TV but really just staring at him.
I will however admit to occasionally, when I feel particularly embarrassed for my unabashed public monologues, pretending to be singing instead, like "* mumble mumble* I really should complete my masterplan for world domination today Popular Posts Across MetaFilter
Hewitt had gained entrance to the Hall by pretending to be a heating engineer.
He attempted to appease the nasty wing of his own party by being tough on immigrants, while pretending that his proposals were liberal and sensible.
While Mrs. Vesey and Miss Halcombe were richly clad (each in the manner most becoming to her age), the first in silver-grey, and the second in that delicate primrose-yellow colour which matches so well with a dark complexion and black hair, Miss Fairlie was unpretendingly and almost poorly dressed in plain white muslin. The Woman in White
Don't you just LOVE analysts who use words like "harangued" (pretending to be erudite and sophisticated) and, in the same sentence, leave out the simple, basic preposition "of"? MacDailyNews
I caught up with Jase an hour later in the executive lunchroom, where he sat at a small table pretending to read an offprint from Astrophysics Review. Spin
When a cat purrs, he is actually pretending to be a helicopter. The Sun
When I was a boy and I used to dig in our backyard, half mimicking my dog and half pretending to be an explorer, I used to say I was digging to China.
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. Drew Barrymore
He isn't really angry - he's just pretending.
"We've already seen a vishing campaign where someone was pretending to be from the Bank of America," he says.
Of course, pretending the cancer thing isn't happening is not good either. The Sun
And now they come to this chamber, bleating, awash with crocodile tears and pretending to be the custodians of free speech - pretending to be the custodians of this institution.
But it is no good pretending that just because you are watching a contest branded with five interlocking rings you are therefore watching great sport. Times, Sunday Times
He's playing a long game as far as revenge on Gary Windass is concerned, and is currently pretending to be Gazza's bezzie mate. Corrieblog
She made a fanning motion, pretending to cool herself off.
She had enjoyed slipping away into their make believe world and pretending she was the heroine.
According to her testimony, it is Vera who is the villain because she wormed into her family, pretending that she was a family friend.
We've all heard the name Habakkuk - no use pretending we haven't. Rulers of the Darkness
Vince asked the two, pretending not to notice the silicone-stuffed stripper gyrating inches in front of him.
It's hard to say what's worse: a summer blockbuster that treats death with video game flippancy or a dour bit of Oscar bait like this, pretending to legitimise ‘necessary’ violence through glamorous gunfire.
Why do I run around pretending to be the hostess with the mostest when all I really want to do is give my guests a big glass of something alcoholic and the phone number of the nearest takeaway?
The five are charged with propositioning men and then pretending to be police officers, handcuffing the men, and then robbing them.
This is where I first rode my Vespa, pretending I was in a film.
I saw your smiling mask, pretending naivete, no matter what is goody - goody.
He didn't even really mind having to make cute remarks or pretending to toddle and lisp. THE ROGUES' REUNION
The man was pretending to lure me away using a squeaky rubber duck. The Sun
And this is a game based on simply pretending to play the guitar. Times, Sunday Times
There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity.
Tommy uses every trick in the book to catch his man: dressing as a rodeo clown, shilling prizes as a slick Vegas huckster, or pretending to be a backwoods hick, Tommy has all the right moves.
Hewitt had gained entrance to the Hall by pretending to be a heating engineer.
He travels the circuit, pretending to be an ordinary joe, and then cleans up on bets and prizes because he has a great rock-and-roll voice.
Have we made marriage less attractive to men by pretending that men are expendable, that fatherless families are just "alternative family forms?"
For a while I wondered why I had insomnia and then I remembered this thing I've been pretending isn't such a big deal is a big deal and I'm not handling it very well.
Tana just acted normal, pretending not to understand why they were all looking at her funnily and angrily.
Take a letter to Kublai Khan, " I said to Mon Cul, pretending that the baboon was my secretary. Another Roadside Attraction
In the video that surfaced Tuesday, Mr. Schiller, the head of NPR's fund-raising arm—who is no relation to Vivian Schiller—and a colleague are shown meeting two men in a café pretending to be from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center and offering a donation of as much as $5 million to NPR because of what they describe as "Zionist coverage" by other news organizations. Video Kills the Radio Czar
Hillary and her campaign workers like Mike have no shame in twisting data to their advantage and pretending to be telling the truth. Blitzer: Crunch time for superdelegates
Matty sank quietly down on the stairs and listened intently, his fingers pretending to redo the laces of his sneakers. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Having a prosthetic hand was heavy and quite annoying when you were pretending to be a butterfly! The Sun
And there is great irony in a man obviously trying to lie his way out of this while pretending to be a man of God.
In this treatise he shows that the cabalistic works, ‘which are palmed upon ancient authorities, are pseudonymous; that the doctrines themselves are mischievous; and that the followers of this system are inflated with proud notions, pretending to know the nature of God better than any one else, and to possess the nearest and best way of approaching the Deity.’
Often, we'd sit there and get drunk, dance badly to the student disco and talk a load of bull about football to each other and any other person pretending they were students who happened to be drinking there at the time.
She created a ‘cottage-home, plain and unpretending.’
For example, when a key staffer is dismissed for pretending to be public servant with fake credentials, its a requirement to metaphorically flog the offender - not kiss him goodbye - as a sign of respect to the civic employees who actually take the public trust seriously. PubliQuestion: Most Voters Shrug Off McGinn Missteps « PubliCola
Your so-called magus, Dee, or perhaps it was the one you call your Spirit, both pretending knowledge of matters far beyond their ken? Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
As this PTC is headed by a woman pretending to be a Priest I can only conclude that it is at best a waste of time and effort, but more likely will only lead many Anglicans further and further away from the Truth of God. Anglican Think Tank helps Anglicans think more clearly about their faith « Anglican Samizdat
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Drew Barrymore
She has oinked her way from one side of the country to the other spreading lies and "pretending" she's intelligent. Sotomayor denies prejudging gun-control issue
For a while he stood in front of the Ironmonger's pretending to study the barbecue equipment, garden furniture, piled cans of emulsion paint.
And a formidable one at that – it's Hulk Hogan, who for two decades was the leading proponent of ripping flimsy T-shirts open, pretending to be deaf and flexing his saveloy-style arms in slow-motion to the sound of copyright-free hard rock music on VHS compilation tapes. Rosie O’Donnell Gets All Hubba Hubba Over Elisabeth Hasselbeck
He dramatically flops backwards, lolling out his tongue and pretending to be dead.
His sales patter included planting drugs in a room and then pretending to find them with the device. The Sun
My having found it so marks a lazy mind I think, because the poem isn't too difficult - though I then proceeded to enjoy myself pretending it was as I bluntly anatomized it.
‘I was still pretending that she would get through the Sierra before the snows fell,’ Didion writes.
In order to retain a shred of dignity, therefore, you should do as little work as possible while pretending to work.
And the two young ladies kept on nattering on about hair fashion all the time pretending not to see an old man standing close by.
His sales patter included planting drugs in a room and then pretending to find them with the device. The Sun
The men in the room f lush while pretending not to look. Times, Sunday Times
I was tired of pretending that any stories in which I figured could ever end happily.
If a boy pretending to hump another boys face somehow "alienates" them then it wouldn't take much, would it? Undefined
Many pretenders are only pretending that they want to be champions. Times, Sunday Times
Pretending that we do not need to discuss such questions will not make the dilemmas and hard choices that are looming for Australia go away.
On tour, this dependency was even more intensified; we used to joke in the airports, pretending we were sheep, bleating as we waited for someone to tell us where to go.
Wilton; and Dunstan, pretending to be very much shocked, condemned him not to wear his crown upon his head for seven years — no great punishment, I dare say, as it can hardly have been a more comfortable ornament to wear, than a stewpan without a handle. A Child's History of England
He's a mentalist, which is recreating, or pretending to read, people's minds - giving the illusion of reading people's minds, all using tricks you can come up with.
While Matthews might believe that we still have intellectuals pretending to be gunslingers, I am more convinced we have gunslingers pretending to be intellectuals.
I quite agree, except I chose to hide behind my facade of dyed hair and unnatural lashes while pretending to not understand and therefore was spared the embarrassment of giving my unsubstantial opinions.
Lachian rows the boat to the middle of the loch and then he jumps in the water and starts pretending to drown.
With you sort of pretending not to notice? Times, Sunday Times
A twenty-year-old dancer manque did isometrics on his towel, pretending to be oblivious to the stares he attracted.
After he heard that he was an aruspex, being a man whose mind was not without a tincture of religion, pretending that he wished to consult him on the expiation of a private portent, if he could aid him, he enticed the prophet to a conference. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
During one call, Ggong teased the listener pretending to be KFN's scenarist.
They were still "foxing," or as my Samoan servant called it, _le toga-fiti e mate_ (pretending to be dead). The Call Of The South 1908
They would confirm this, by pretending to observe, that a British anus being more narrowly perforated than one of our own country; and many of these excrements upon a strict view appearing copple crowned, with a point like a cone or pyramid, are easily distinguished from the The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
A crisp edit would usefully emphasise their greatest asset, namely Cedric Gasaida's honeyed falsetto vocals: they're enticingly seductive on Into the Night, while Reckless With Your Love gives the delicious impression that he spent some fruitful time in his youth pretending to be Grace Jones. Azari & III: Azari & III – review
Then President Bartlet and CJ, under cover of night, climbed up the outside bluestone circus, where the President set a chair on fire with his cigarette and then distracted the Nazis by pretending to be God. Archive 2009-10-01
Parents were pretending to live at grandma's house or renting a little flat just to say they were in the area. Times, Sunday Times
As I was scanning this post, I pretended to be reading the text and critically reflecting on the discussed concepts while at the same time pretending to be evaluating the esthetical and graphical aspects of the type font. What Are You Looking At?
I wake up at 5am and lie there, pretending I am going to go back to sleep.
All types of vehicles were said to be by-passing the weighbridges without even reporting, pretending to be empty.
Otherwise it's pretending, play-acting, not really living.
I had no idea that pretending to sprain your ankle would hurt so badly.
Admire our strategy when we feign indifference to what you call the pleasures of love, pretending even to be far removed from its sweetness, we augment the grandeur of the sacrifice we make for you, by it, we even inspire the gratitude of the authors of the very benefits we receive from them, you are satisfied with the good you do us. Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century
She can have her motorcades if she stops pretending she is the Queen of Sheeba.
The film shows one man pretending to pull a gun from his trousers. The Sun
I just read an article on the Leatherback Turtle, a sea beasty that can get very large and has a habit of lazing about on the surface, pretending to be a tiny island. WMAMing it up.
The chapters where Dany is negotiating the purchase of the unsullied are almost all in Valyrian (with Dany replying in Westrosi and pretending she doesn't understand what's being said). Klaatu Barada Nicto...
When she looked at the fire, it was blurred, and the smoke wreathed lazily; she stared intently at that smoke, pretending she could see each and every particle, that she was as small as they were.
They just looked straight through her, pretending not to see her.
Very young kids might think its a game of make-believe pretending to be sleeping doggies, lions and snakes.
You can build your own theories about why that wall is there, but it is and there's no point pretending otherwise. Times, Sunday Times
Pretending he doesn't remember is an old trick of his.
My brother and I were monkeying around and he was pretending to try to throw me to the ground.
Shame on all of you, especially those who have turned their backs on your own cultural values for 30 pieces of silver, pretending to be converted to foreign, frigid and feelingless 'freedoms'," wrote Mpofu in a weekend letter made public by SABC. ANC Daily News Briefing
What most collectors wanted were Guston's graceful abstract paintings from the 1950's, not the lumpish, ragged late works that had caused New York critic Hilton Kramer to call Guston "A Mandarin Pretending to be a Stumblebum. John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing
That evening, I spent an hour in the Laidlaw Library, sitting in a carrel, pretending to study some book I'd grabbed off the shelf.
Braid designer (and former Best of SVGL winner) Jon Blow again decries "pandering to the player's demand for mastery," and calls "pretending to give you a challenge and letting you win and giving you bright colors and sound effects to celebrate the fact that you won," "disturbing. Archive 2008-02-01
Nathan was snoring, and Amber had taken over the second rollaway bed, pretending to be asleep.
The implication here is that pension providers fear fraud by non-smokers pretending to smoke in order to get a higher pension.
No one was pretending the new numbers were anywhere near as good as the old favourites. Times, Sunday Times
He had previous convictions after pretending to be a fleet manager sending aid convoys to Bosnia and twice posing as a police officer.
All my life, I've only been pretending. Without me, his world will go on turning. A world that's full of happiness that I have never known.

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