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A note to teachers:

I was always a terrible liar in grade school. I once told my teacher the pine sapling I had received during the "Plant A Tree" event on Arbor Day in kindergarden had grown to be a towering fifteen feet tall...

I was in second grade.

Despite the apparent, she mistook my blatant mistruths—miscalculated details and all—as a sign of a wonderful imagination taking root. I was placed in a gifted program with four other students and spent the rest of my time in elementary school leaving the other kids behind to play jacks at recess while I learned of medieval architecture and how to solve riddles with logic.

Of course it wasn't only my playful fibs that had my teacher's attention, but they were perhaps the most significant. And thanks to her—although the pine tree had died several years earlier—a figurative one kept on growing, simply because she took the time to sprinkle water over the seeds of imagination deep within me.