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Sunflower Seeds
The lie when he told it was not a big one but it soured something between them, though she tried not to let it. She had made homemade soup and sent him to the shop for bread rolls.
‘The ones with the seeds,’ she said. ‘The ones I like.’
His look said it all, and when he returned it was with plain white rolls, which were the ones he liked.
‘It’s not my fault,’ he said. ‘They’d sold out.’
Later, she had to go to the shop for something else and she found the shelves amply stocked with the rolls she’d wanted.
‘What can I say,’ he said when she confronted him. ‘I just don’t like them.’
‘You should have just said. There was no need to lie.’
He sulked then, and there was an atmosphere between them.
Later, he felt the urge to atone in some way, though she could see he
