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wanderingchana
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I disagree that she’s completely rejected frumkeit, if it’s true she’s sending her son to a MO school.

As someone who became frum as an adult, I feel terrible for her that she was treated so horribly growing up that she walked away from what I wish I’d had (granted, not in Satmar, which is maybe part of the point).

I look back on my secular childhood and the trappings all seem so hollow now. Even then I felt deprived because we weren’t even “middle class” economically. That’s the thing with secular society – it’s impossible to become happy with what you have at some point. She doesn’t even see how her publisher and the media have already exploited her. I read that the dress she wore in that story was bought by the magazine, for the picture. Clearly she’s making a statement by wearing it – ‘THIS is how much I reject my upbringing’.

I just hope she’s able to find peace in her relationship with Hashem. Ultimately she doesn’t answer to any of us – only Him.