The Kind Lie

A man who has ordered the Tuesday pastrami for twenty years started ordering the egg sandwich instead, two dollars cheaper, and called it cholesterol. The country’s cattle herd is the smallest it has been in seventy-five years. George Khan counts what the price reports do not: the man, the split sandwich, the young father and his kind lie, the quiet arithmetic a working family does at the counter. A town is held together by how gently we let each other get on with less. The front porch is open. Readers of the Cedar Valley News are gathering on Facebook to respond to the editorials, share their own stories, and join a conversation built on respect, honesty, and no party lines. Come sit with us: https://bit.ly/40p8jKy