Katherine Boyle

Like he's going to...

Again, he was such a saint of a man, too, where he refused to take pain pills.

He refused to sort of succumb to what was happening.

And he actually lived for a while.

He lived until I was in college, but he died when I was in college.

And I always think the thing that kind of, if you've had to take care of a parent for a while,

you're of course sad when they're gone.

But the other thing that happens is you have this moment of just relief.

That was the real emotion that I felt was like, wow, my mother had been taking care of him for eight years.

And when it happened, I was like, okay, this is the beginning of my life.

Because when that's all you've known is, okay, I have to take care of my family.

That's when I really just had this moment of, okay, maybe I can go do something big now.

Maybe I can go do the thing and not have to worry about family or have to think about anyone but myself.

I can be super selfish about what I want.

And a lot of my friends were thinking about joining the agency.

I actually had a really interesting thing happen where I worked all through college and I started walking a lady's dog, like this older lady who lived in Georgetown.

She was afraid to walk around the neighborhood at 10.30 at night.

So every night at 10.30 at night, I would leave the library, go to her house and walk her dog.

And over time, I learned that she was the first female station chief at the CIA.

Yeah.