PLEASE HELP ASAP And then one day-in fact, just two or three days ago-as I was gazing blankly at the view from my window, it struck me with such force that, for a moment, I was unable to breathe. Peaches in the winter? Frogs and mudsnails in the winter? How could I have failed to notice that until now? And, stranger still, what had inspired me-possessed me-at this one moment to seize upon the vital clue? For it was this that lay bare the hoax that memory had played on me year after year. Now, for the first time, I saw the wildly impossible connection that memory had made: carting a load of peaches on a cold winter night! Nowadays, perhaps. But back then? Unthinkable.

The phrase "lay bare the hoax"? most nearly means:

A) exposed the trick.
B) revealed the comfort.
C) disclosed the certainty.
D) betrayed the truth.