“Pretend” is a word children use often, isn’t it? It’s little girls playing with dolls pretending to be mothers, and little boys playing with trucks in the dirt pretending to be operators of big earth moving equipment on a major construction site. Sadly, ‘pretend’ is not restricted to children, is it? It’s far too widespread among adults and goes by various words like ‘deceitful’ or ‘manipulative’ or ‘hypocrite’ or ‘scammer’ or even ‘espionage’.