"My son lives with me, " she explained.

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That several hundred thousand tax lawyers and accountants will have to go do something useful with their lives does not strike me as a flaw in the plan.

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My parents had worked hard to seize opportunities in their lives, saving enough money to provide me with extracurricular opportunities and eventually hire me a tutor.

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Their stars are now on this wall behind me -- along with those who gave their lives in this fight.

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As a mother it is hard for me to imagine her daily need for answers or the consuming grief she lives with.

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But you know, underneath, that the people at these tables have lives as complicated and dramatic and filled with pain and joy as the people sitting next to me on the subway.

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So the idea that there's something wrong with that, it seems -- strikes me as kind of, you know, some people live their whole lives with the conspiratorial view of the world. (Whispering.) Why did they do that?

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Their inspiration gives me hope that we can make a difference with On the Board in the lives of these women and in the lives of the many young women who have come to GWSB to learn about business and embark on a business career that values them as it values their male colleagues.

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Inspector Mike Kneeshaw went with me to see the differences the classroom training provided by Scottish officers is making to real lives on the ground in Sri Lanka.

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