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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like you're sort of (and even the slate piece) is missing the point.

The author of cat people said it was 100% fiction.  The slate writer figured out it was about her and confirmed with thee cat people author that those were her details, it had been based on her.  Charles admitted to another friend he was upset that the cat people author 'dragged" slate author "into it."

So, it seems like the people in the story were slate and Charles, but the truly bad experiences were Cat people and Charles.  Cat people fictionalized her bad experience with Charles by subbing in slate author's bio details.  [/quote]

The Slate piece is written by the woman whose life and relationship was fictionalized by the author of the short story. The background of the fictional character, including her relationship with an older man, were so similar to her real life that people were texting her about it as soon as the story came out.

Talk about someone missing the point. Jesus.[/quote]

The Slate writer texted with Charles after the article but didn’t ask how he and the original author knew each other. Original author said she had an “interaction” with Charles at their university. But Slate author and Charles dated for like 2-3 years in reality, right? Not just, basically, the short, almost one night stand in the original piece. My bet is that original author heard through the grapevine that early-mid 30s Charles was dating a college freshman and was so aghast at it that she decided to write a semi-scathing piece against both of them. [/quote]

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