“Slander!” Carter hollers, busying himself with his task again. “This is vicious slander!” “Slander is the act of makin’ false and damagin’ statements about a person,” a loud voice calls nonchalantly from across the backyard, and my six-year-old daughter shifts her heart-shaped sunglasses down her nose, sipping her pink drink. “Are they saying false things about you, Uncle Carter?” “Well, maybe not false, but definitely damaging.” “Then it’s not slander, Uncle Carter.” She would know; it was her word of the day two weeks ago. Carter chucks his tools to the ground, arms overhead again. “Lana!
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