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(Quora) What was your kindest white lie you've told?

(This thread has a few interesting answers.  :) )

1/ Answered by Claudia Becker:

I told my Grandma that my Mom was shopping and would see her later. You see, my Mom died in 2002 of a stroke. My Grandma outlived two of her three children. Grandma was in a nursing home with dementia. She thought she worked there (she was a nurse for 45 years). We would visit my Grandma every week and she would ask where my Mother was. My Dad would tell her she died and Grandma would grieve fresh all over again. I told Dad that we would not put her through that anymore. We would tell her that Mom had to pick up groceries and would see her later. That was enough for Grandma to just enjoy our visits. Eventually, she just began thinking I was my Mom, so I was whoever she needed me to be and just loved me anyway. She died 6 years after my Mom at 97. I miss her feisty self.

2/ Answered by Nancy Walsh:

Actually I have two white lies stories. The one I will tell is, I live in Florida in an over 55 community, at the time I was about 60 or 61, a neighbor mid 80’s, who lived a couple streets away from me had dementia. One day I saw her walking down by my house towards the river. I went out to see her, she said she saw a church but couldn’t find it. Became a little bit upset and agitated. I said that I saw it too and it really looked like a church but it was a sailboat. She accepted this and I was able to calm her and walk her home. Her son was supposed to be watching her, he wasn’t doing a good job. She went into a nursing facility soon after.