That’s how she says it: “My house burned down.” She uses the passive voice, as though it happened on its own. Which is a little like Brutus saying, “When Caesar was stabbed in the back.” Like a baleen whale saying, “When all those plankton were eaten.” Like eighteenth-century Parisian revolutionaries saying, “When the Bastille was stormed.” Technically accurate, but we need to assign credit where it is due.
