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Thanks for the excellent reply, Northernwrites! :D The reason I asked here was that perhaps someone in publishing is also active here, and the reason I thought publishers might be able to help is that I thought they would have a perspective on whether or not they would "stay away" from a story of this nature. But you are right that a lawyer would be a better way to go, and I am at a point where I would be willing to pay for that. So thank you for pointing me in the right direction :)

Regarding the story, I would probably snicker at anyone who told me "I experienced this and think it would make a good story". Yeah right, to you maybe, but the rest of the world doesn't care what you've been through. But I genuinely believe that I'm sitting on something great, a story I couldn't have made up from fantasy and where the details fit so well together that readers would believe I made it up even if it actually happened. It fits the Gary Provost Paragraph beautifully and carries all of the tug-of-war struggles of any great plot.

Whether or not it's a good story in fiction is not a concern. Whether or not I can legally tell it because it draws so heavily on the truth, is.