Is euphemism dead? As an adult I always felt a responsibility to stow away personal bias before declaring attitude towards a matter. As the holidays sling joy, a naive age-old question edges up with childlike innocence. “Will there be snow for Christmas this year?”
The dilemma sets in, paralyzing the foresight and rational thought for few moments, I answered “No, it’s not going to snow”, as I slid the phone back into the right pocket and slouched. The telly was still on, it spun the reel, and I kept weaving the recaps of what I had just said, and weighing it against the tone because, I had just killed euphemism.
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