“I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.”
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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.
My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.
My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'