“Did you know that the metronome inside us quickens when telling a lie? I want to build an honest house, where the motion detector is so sharp it knows when my thoughts leave the room. Where the clap-on lamp works as a polygraph. When you swear you still love me, the lights flicker.”
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With her heartbeat and her body, she easily reacts to the lies her lover tells her, just as a polygraph does.
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