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Depicting the uncertainty of their lives with a truthful tenderness, “All We Imagine as Light” makes the personal political.

“It was hard to hear the judge be truthful with me,” he said.

“But the first part of your redemption journey is being truthful.”

Merriam-Webster defines it as “a truthful or seemingly truthful quality that is claimed for something not because of supporting facts or evidence but because of a feeling that it is true or a desire for it to be true.”

But in the latest salvo, the Chino board last month approved a “no deception” policy that requires all employees to “be truthful and honest and not misrepresent, either directly or by omission,” to parents.