Still Unresolved! Legendary Fanfic My Immortal’s Authorship Remains a Mystery After the Cancellation of Rose Christo’s Memoir • r/UnresolvedMysteries

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Buzz began circulating around Rose Christo’s forthcoming memoir from St. Martin’s Press. There seemed to be a lot of genuine excitement about the book as My Immortal is a well loved internet phenomenon, and the book was promoted as detailing Christo’s strange and tumultuous upbringing during the writing of My Immortal. In multiple outlets, it was claimed that Christo wrote the fanfic hoping to capture the attention of enough people online to eventually aid in the search for her missing brother. The problem with this story? Her missing brother surfaced online to announce that he was never missing, Christo has fabricated her entire dramatic backstory, and she was likely never involved with My Immortal at all. St. Martin’s Press has now dropped the book due to Christo failing a round of routine fact checking.

Her brother happens to be a member of this very forum (@DawnDusk ), and his side of the story paints a different picture, not that she lost communication with him while being shuffled through the system, but that she just doesn’t contact him and never was in foster care. He began poking holes in her claims in this thread; https://kiwifarms.net/threads/author-of-my-immortal-possibly-found.33996/

On her Tumblr, she also frequently blogs about the struggle of being Native American/Indian. Problem with that is she’s actually white.

Still Unresolved! Legendary Fanfic My Immortal’s Authorship Remains a Mystery After the Cancellation of Rose Christo’s Memoir • r/UnresolvedMysteries

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We collect, publish, and analyze survivor’s stories on online platforms in order to create conversations that bring awareness to such pervasive issues. We are high school students who have personally struggled with body image issues and eating disorders and witness negativity and ignorance regarding body image in everyday life. ​We felt compelled to ensure that no others went through the same pain we did.

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