Alice
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She spoke multiple languages.
She was kind of difficult to place in terms of where she was from.
And it may have been as simple as she was striking.
She caught someone's eye.
It was like, she seems unattached.
They watched her for a while.
She seemed like a woman who didn't have a family and could speak multiple languages.
You couldn't exactly place where she was from.
And they thought, you know what?
she can carry the mail.
And the thing that made her stand out to other people may have been what stood out to maybe a couple of Naval officers who said, let's use her.
She doesn't have enough information to do anything bad, but she's the exact prototype of the type of person we want to be able to carry around mail.
Essentially.
And I do think just adding to that tragedy, talking about just who she was as a woman, I think that's exactly right.
I think she had a pretty tragic life.
And I do think she was doing something meaningful for herself.
But I don't think she had a lot of connection to people in her life anymore outside of her control.
Because I think she was ripped from her family or the political atmosphere, what have you.
But I keep coming back to those spoons because...