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To Tell the Truth


Contributed by Robert L. Hodge Readers Digest, May, 1996, p. 135

We were approaching the fourth hole on the golf course one afternoon. Suddenly the sky turned ominous, and it began to rain amid claps of thunder. We rushed to shelter in a gazebo near a metal fence. As the storm grew in intensity, a bolt of lightning hit the long, link fence and lit it up like a neon sign. It was a while before any of us could speak. Then one player turned to his opponent and said, "You know that five I had on the first hole&md;it really was a seven."