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are all your gmail and facebook messages from 10 years ago not still available? I think youd have to go back more than 15 years to get to services where communications are now faded.
Not everything was conducted over gmail or facebook messages. (This is still true, in fact.)
A lot of messages did.
I'm more surprised by the story telling and narrative of the 14 year old author! Impressed. Pretty sure the only thing I was worrying about when 14 was how to get past the min. word count and not use "however" so much.
She definitely didn't write this as-is. No 14-year-old writes this well. It feels as it if was the result of an interview, transcribed by an adult into the first person. "How did you feel? Did you feel betrayed?" "Yeah I guess. It's embarrassing." => "I felt utterly embarrassed, and deeply betrayed." Also this... > I feel like I’m being spared from what could potentially be dangerous for me at such a young age. ... i…
Having been 14 relatively recently, yes, they do, at least in this sort of context.