Had a kim chi nabe party tonight and somehow, a bunch of friends and I got into the following discussion: when 13-14 year olds are hanging with their friends in LA, and the lie came up "Yeah, I had sex once.", it always resulted in a bunch of questions from the friends. One of the first two questions was always, "Who and where" The answer was always, "my cousin who lives in Canada's friend". If the person had not been to Canada, they came up with another place, but, it always seemed like Canadian girls were fictitiously giving it up to a lot of young American guys. So, I asked they J-guys at the party, what part of Japan the imaginary cherry stealer cousin's friend lived in when they lied to their friends about who and where they first "got laid".
The answers were the same, it was a girl two wards over...which to me seems too close. Friends could have asked you to prove that she existed, if she was just a 30 minute train ride away. Canada, I think I localized it to Calgary in my version, which I maintained until last week;) , served as an almost fullproof place that could neither be verified or disproven easily.
Nice to know that we all lie about the same things when we were kids.
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