Fair points on your part too, and hence my central appeal for us adults to learn to agree to disagree.

Fact is when there are such volumes and “free volunteers” dealing with those volumes involved, things are bound to happen now n then.

Only problem being it is human tendency to express gratitude in private but often cry foul in public. I do (now) see where you came at it from too. But this other side of the story had to be told too, for completeness.

Trouble is here on Medium we have gotteb accustomed to self-claimed premium pubs at will rejecting stories with generic trash responses like “thank you for ur submission but no thank you. Pls submit again.” And when a VERY open publication like Illumination does anything as much as sneeze, there is an uproar.

And you dont have to be sorry this happened — not your fault.

Reality is if anything Terry is going to have more time to herself, saving her the hours she spent editing.