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	I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.   
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	I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.   
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	I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.   
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	My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.   
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	My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.   
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	My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.   
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	I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.   
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	You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.   
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	I hope to work with kids any way possible.   
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	I was an English major.   
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	I like to go to bed early.   
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	I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.   
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	I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.   
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	Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.   
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	I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.   
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	One day I would love to have a couple children.   
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	The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.   
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	I'm pretty normal.   
