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And there was a practice adopted for awhile, and still in use by some non-fiction authors, to use he/him and she/her intermittently in whole sections of the text, pointing this out to the reader in the prologue as being done in "the interests of fairness". But this practice always seemed awkward and heavy-handed to me. Now, it seems, this gender-doubling of pronouns has largely faded from use.
And BTW...third person or third perdaughter?
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