My Mother Trusted Technology and It Killed Me
My mother, Vivienne Freeman, was the Donna of Freeman Family.
She had her senior engineers develop an advanced lie detector. It looked like a bracelet, and my sister and I each wore one.
Whenever I lied, my band flashed red. It could supposedly catch me even when I merely thought about lying.
From then on, the band seemed able to read my mind. Even when I kept my mouth shut, it still flashed red.
Then Mom would find some way to punish me.
I told her countless times that I had never lied, but she refused to believe me.
She would not let me question technology she had personally approved. Pointing to my sister's dark band, she demanded to know why it never flashed and why I never told the trut