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Jtsummers
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The power of imagination, and other parenting less...
"she", not "he". The author is a woman.
craftinator
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Ah, the pedantic bait and switch, one of my favorite rhetorical foibles!
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It's not a bait and switch, it was my only comment here. But it's reasonable to expect people to get the genders correct for the subjects of their sentences. Use a neutral term like "they" if you don't know and don't want to or can't find out.
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