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Her repeated attempts at reframing herself—"I love bookstores because they’re safe spaces"—are exposed as superficial at best. No avid reader genuinely searches for a "safe space" in a bookstore; they search for escape, adventure, or enlightenment. Markle’s positioning as a victim of media and her own childhood trauma is dismissed as a manufactured narrative, a pattern of American-style victimhood that she’s keen to recycle but lacks the depth to sustain authentically.
Her tone-deaf remarks about owning her story, combined with her momentary slips—such as hand-over-mouth gestures when lying or evasive answers—reek of the performative rather than genuine introspection. She appears more preoccupied with crafting an image of vulnerability than revealing substantive insights.