A Bit Of Writing I've Been Working On

It is a strange thing, but the more assurance a person gets that Fact A is true, the more it seems his mind makes him believe that Opposing Fact B is true in place of Fact A. Before Elwin was born, his mother once asked his father if her blouse made her look like an orangutan’s second chin and he answered in the affirmative, knowing that in her mind she would become defensive and rally round all arguments to the contrary, thereby supposedly raisisng her own self-confidence. Had he told her that her blouse did not make her look like an orangutan’s second chin, her conscious mind would have appreciated it, but in her subconscious there would rise a little voice that said, “I bet he says that to all the girls.”