Talk:The Final Fate of Mary Ford/@comment-30892069-20170110221228/@comment-26425680-20170111165139

Thanks for taking the time to lay out your criticisms. The only one I'll take issue with is the 1950s principal having access to a phone. Rural phone systems weren't uncommon, even as early as the 1920s. Not everyone had a phone, but it's not too far-fetched to think that someone at a particular school would have access to one. I actually did a little research on that aspect beforehand. As far as your other criticisms, those are opinions, and yours are certainly as valid as anyone else's. I just have to accept the fact that not everyone is going to like what I write. At the end, I was trying to imply at the end that maybe Mary wasn't as bad in life as she had portrayed herself, or at least that she was only telling one side of the story. However, if you didn't get that, then the failure is mine as the writer, not yours as the reader. Still, if I were to rewrite it today I wouldn't change too much. I know it's not perfect, but it's my own little bit of imperfection that I've grown fond of.