and she pretended to believe that we believed her

To keep us from seeing it as shameful, my mother would turn it into a game. We knew it was because we were poor and had no money; children understand that faster than people think. My mother would say Let's go collect some firewood, we could use a walk and it'll be fun.

We pretended to believe her and she pretended to believe that we believed her. 

- The End of Eddy, Eduard Louis (2014)