FALLING FOR MY BEST FRIEND'S FATHER
She had written something thoughtful and carefully structured and genuinely engaging, the kind of piece that got shared by people who considered themselves nuanced, which made it infinitely more dangerous than a tabloid hit would have been.
It opened with statistics. Age gap relationships across three decades, the cultural shift in how they were perceived, and the feminist debate around agency versus power imbalance. Dana had interviewed a psychologist, a sociologist, and two anonymous women in age-gap relationships. She had built a real piece of journalism around a real question.
And then, in the seventh paragraph, like a stone dropped into the middle of a carefully constructed pool:
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