[Iron Munro]

"I was a product of rape': Miss USA 2014 hopeful reveals"

Was ?

Is she dead ?

[Neidermeyer]

“I was a product of rape’: Miss USA 2014 hopeful reveals”

Was ?

Is she dead ?
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I’ll play grammar police here ... looking at things chronologically she WAS indeed a product of rape ,, she was no doubt conceived minutes/hours or even days afterwards ,, she could say “was and am...” but that would be very awkward and wouldn’t be true in her mind ,, she is no longer a “product of rape” but a child of her loving mother ,, putting it in the past tense is very healthy.