Gaby Rodriguez would worry whenever anyone asked to touch her baby bump. It wasn’t because she felt shy or embarrassed. It was because the bulge – fashioned from wire mesh and cotton quilt batting – didn’t actually contain a baby. For the past 6  1/2 months – the bulk of her senior year at Toppenish High School – the 17-year-old A-student faked her own pregnancy. Only a handful of people – her mother, boyfriend and principal among them – knew Gaby was pretending to be pregnant for her senior project, a culminating assignment required for graduation. Her teachers and fellow students, except for her best friend, didn’t realize they were part of a social experiment/Yakima Herald-Republic. More here.

Question: Is there a lesson in Gaby Rodriguez's experiment that we can all take to heart?