Spilling the Beans Can Make a Mighty Big Mess

Spilling the Beans Can Make a Mighty Big Mess
Being trusted to be told a secret might make the person telling it feel better, but it conveys a huge responsibility on the recipient to honor that trust. Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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“Promise you won’t tell anyone.”

Most of us have either made that request or had it made of us. A key unlocks the heart and the lips, and what was confined within is entrusted to the care and keeping of another.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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