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The discussion about whether or not everything was symbolic could be used to infer that you wrote Recognition because you supported female abuse.
Kaylle, I appreciate your explaining what you thought Julie might have meant. But *how* could it be used to infer that?

I'm honestly not sure how anyone could make that inference about Alice Cardinal's death in Recognition, given that the story was partly about the abuse and discrimination that led to her death. So her death was symbolic of that situaton, and I guess I'd hoped the context of her death would make that obvious.

It was written awhile ago now, and I do admit to its having more than one A plot in it. It's disheartening to realise that a story I wrote partly to highlight how some women are abused has been remembered as one which symbolizes "gendercide".

c.