Delight washed over me, but fear soon followed as I read the rest of the email. “Because this will be a substantially longer—and more prominent—piece than we’ve ever run from you in the past, we will need to do some homework on our end,” Rebecca wrote. She said Anais could remain anonymous in the piece, which was “great legal cover, anyway,” but “internally,” they wanted to make sure she was aware of the story and didn’t refute some of the central claims.
