Editorial Notes I've Been In My Feelings About

I've gone through several editors at my publisher and before she left the last one gave me notes that she didn't understand why I included a politics chapter or mentioned COVID-19 in the draft and should consider deleting that stuff in order to remain "timeless."

As if "how do I persist despite the horrors" and "how do I interact constructively with people who claim to love me but proudly voted to...