It is self-deceiving words, your heart has been sharp cuts, would also need to cover up what everyone knows you can not become a common friend, do not have any illusion about it.
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如果他不是为了掩饰自己所犯的罪行,又何必谎称接到一个已经死了两个礼拜的人打来的电话呢?
Why else would he say he got a call from a man who had been dead two weeks, if not to cover his own tracks?