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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the issue of borrowing — as the Slate writer makes clear, when the short story came out, she started getting texts from friends assuming that she had written it under a pen name

It wasn’t just her who said “who this sounds familiar”

It was her friends who did.

“I had dozens of text messages—some from close friends, but many from old co-workers, classmates, and people I hadn’t spoken to in years. Most of them contained a link to a New Yorker short story. … “Is this about you?” the text messages read. “Did you write this under a pen name? Did Charles?” My stomach dropped. Charles and I had broken up two years prior…”

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:shock: She was talking about her dating life to "...co-workers, classmates, and people I hadn’t spoken to in years" in a manner that they recognized the bad sex??[/quote]
No, those people knew her tiny hometown, the name of the movie theater where she worked, and the university where she went. Read the Slate piece before mouthing off.[/quote]

I mean, 40,000 people attend UM every year, many of them likely from Saline. [i]I[/i] worked at the Michigan Theater, too. These details aren’t enough to identify someone. [/quote]
Well, they also knew that she went out with an older guy, which was the subject of the piece. And the bad sex stuff in the piece wasn’t true, so it’s not that her friends recognized that.[/quote]

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