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[quote=Anonymous]Because I can’t overthink this enough – some more thoughts on possible motivation.

This case reminded me that on a larger scale Amanda Knox wrote a long thread on Twitter about Matt Damon and Stillwater stealing her life for gain earlier this year. There’s a lot written in true crime about how to tell a story in a morally responsible way. Knox talked about missed profits, but also how they skewered her life, got the facts all wrong, which made it more difficult to engage with society. One beef is that nobody from the movie reached out to her to find out what it was like to actually have been in that situation. If I recall, she said she didn’t have a leg to stand on because people have a right to use life situations, but was there any responsibility to her. It hurt her deeply that she only found out about the movie through a trailer.

Some of this echoes what Dawn was feeling: cut out from the story and misrepresented. If you were writing a story about a kidney donation and a friend had just participated in one, wouldn’t you at the very least ask about their experience? I took a look at Sonya’s website, and was surprised to see that The Kindest is prominently featured on her homepage. It says in large font, “Hi. I wrote The Kindest.” There’s a video and links to info about Asian-American racism, and alcoholism (but not about kidney donation). She clearly published other works after The Kindest, so is this story the one that has most-defined or -propelled her career? If that’s the case, that might explain exactly why both Sonya AND Dawn are not giving this up.

That would mean Sonya’s most-important feat in her career was a (poorly written IMO) story that was based on a petty rant, so she’s clinging on so tightly to the cognitive dissonance. But, if Dawn sees what she feels is her story, drawn wrongly, as being the apex of Sonya’s career, that may also explain why she’s digging in. It strikes me that she believes in fairness and truth, especially in telling stories. And, we all know she has a valid claim because unlike Stillwater, Sonya lifted a letter from Dawn, giving Dawn a leg to stand on in the courts. In fact, as many, many people have said she could have disguised it enough so that Dawn might guess it was about her, but couldn’t really tell. But, Sonya made a very poor choice.
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