Katherine Boyle

And like, you know, I'd go into her house and she had like, I mean, in some ways it looks like a room like yours, just like, like just mementos of a life well-lived.

Like she'd been everywhere.

She'd been all over Asia, just had the most incredible stories.

But she was like this very demure, quiet,

quiet lady.

You would never know.

She's beautiful, just lovely, very well-mannered, but a polyglot.

She could speak many languages, but you would never suspect her.

And I think it was partially spending so much time with her and looking at her life and just thinking, wow, this is really cool.

But then also, I grew up during September 11th, too.

It changed everyone's mind about, okay, what are you going to do?

And that's why I wanted to go to Washington and

kind of work in foreign affairs in some capacity.

And I just said, you know, after my dad died, I'm like, I want to do that.

Like, I can finally do that.

And going back to sort of like, you know, I hadn't ever failed at anything.

You know, I was one of these kids, I was sort of the, I don't want to say I was a trophy kid, but it's like, again, I just worked hard at everything I did.

And it was always a view that like, if you work hard enough in life, you can get what you want, right?

I just assumed going into that recruitment, like, oh, I'm a shoo-in.

I'm top grad out of Georgetown.