Brines remembers her work with the women in China, and celebrates the true stories of women she found to be loyal, appreciative, and self-sacrificing. But after the fall this open way was closed. She is in control here, choosing the manner in which her attacker will last see and remember her. And becoming a queen would have provided her the seeming power to do just that. The tone is apparent in this article but it corrodes the purpose of objective truths and instead exposes a persuasive mood.
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