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You are growing up and you have a stepsister. That is true. You are being raised by a single mother and how did she support herself . Mom i remember became a nurse sometime after i was 8 or 9. As i write about in the book, these were good times economically. We were not struggling during that time. Before that i dont know. My grandparents helped out a little bit and one of the stories in the book was they, after mom was no longer in nursing things were tough for the family economically and they were tough socially. Your mother was married or has relationships with people, 4 or 56 different times. With that disconcerting to see a different man . It was an unstable childhood from the perspective of people coming in and out of our lives. I didnt realize until i was older what effect that was having on me. I didnt like it when i was a kid or that i would befriend this guy or feel this guy was becoming a father figure and was out of our lives. I know a lot of my friends were going through t
I just want to take a moment to recognize that dd cannot join us tonight to talks leadership in the cia and the careers at the agency and one was even recruited out of high school we will hear about that. And please make sure you are listening to beverly kurt. Also if you are tweeting tonight please use the. The fire alarm goes off i will be here to escort you were to go. Now i will handed over to the executive Vice President for global government and then to help to amplify the voices with the International Business and development. [applause] thank you kathleen for joining us tonight for the smart women in smart power series. We are so excited weve had some really great panels. But i think this will be one of the best ones we have tonight. We are proud to call ourselves a and with the distinctive lines of business that gives us a unique Vantage Point of political climates around the world. So as we confront those challenges we do so in a way that enables us to provide Financial Servi