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In “ Understanding the Science ,” your story in this week’s issue, a group of friends are sitting around a dinner table in Chicago, celebrating the fact that Maria’s cancer is now in remission. The conversation is general, and maybe a little boring—Maria, certainly, feels a bit disaffected. A spark comes when Katherine’s boyfriend, Adrian, enters the scene, because he’s a famous actor. Though the story begins in Maria’s point of view, it starts to subtly shift, and ends in Adrian’s perspective. How did you think about who is telling this story, and whose voice—or voices—we should trust?

As is always the case

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