Good point, it's probably always been just a story and after a certain amount of bitter experience we eventually realise it is not true. A persistent, rolling

Good point, it's probably always been just a story and after a certain amount of bitter experience we eventually realise it is not true. A persistent, rolling wave on the sea of fiction that eventually breaks on the shores of the gritty-sanded beach of experience behind the dunes of which is built the school of hard knocks.