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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was appalled when I heard about this story and sided with Dawn, but damn when I read her posts about her donation my eyes roll back so far in my head it hurts.

I would have had a very hard time not being sarcastic to her. Maybe my problem is I know too many women who do charity for attention. One message she sent to Sonya  she talked about attending a charity function with Jayne Seymore and being so proud that the doctor who took her kidney mentioned her kidney "just gushing urine".  Ugh.

I would have stopped talking to her and avoided her but I know I would have made comments to a mutual friend about her. In any group I've been in there would be at least one adult who would shut the nastiness down so we would only go on so long.

No one in that group admitted that they were the ones doing the stalking. What an empty echo chamber they were. [/quote]

For what it's worth, I had a similar initial reaction. But when I read the events in chronological order and observed the time gaps, I lost any sense of neediness from Dawn. One of the great errors of the NYT article is that it ignores the timing of all the messages and takes them very out of context. Read in chronological order, those needy-seeming messages start to sound instead like the thought process of someone who can tell, somehow, that she's being gaslit, but doesn't know quite how.

I actually think that the NYT presentation is really problematic, because it constructs a narrative that doesn't match the real world timing.[/quote]

I'm the poster you replied to and I agree with you. My last comment - the empty echo chamber - refers to Sonya, Ng etc. It amazes me that as smart as the Ng, Sonya etc are they never stepped back to look at what THEY were doing. They were the stalkers. I haven't read all the posts but just enough to see Dawn wasn't stalking anyone and actually was doing a commendable job trying to find out what was going on and standing up for herself. If I thought Sonya was my friend I would have asked her what was up with our relationship and if I thought she wrote on essay based on my unique life experience, I would try to talk to her about it. [/quote]

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