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  1. “There's a story behind it. So it's not just some, you didn't have some interior design or curate. You know, like nobody came in here with books by the yard.”

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  2. “And the warmth I think with spaces, they You can feel like the soul of a structure. And I think on the hotel side, you have to think about like flow of traffic use, all these things. When you're building condominiums or your own home, you want to think about like the warmth of a space as well. And especially with super modern design, sometimes like warmth is sacrificed. And I think there is a way to sort of marry both. And that's where you get into sort of the interior design elements and disciplines and how fabrics can create tremendous warmth in a space which is otherwise sort of colder, raw building materials. And that's a really interesting, like how texture matters, how color matters. And I think oftentimes interior design is not Don't take the same priority. And I think that underestimates the impact it can have.”

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  3. “I'm sure you've walked into your fair share of quirky rooms. And sometimes that's charming, but most often it's charming when it's intentional. Through smart design.”

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  4. “Will the grade of the land, right? If it's super steep. So, also finding the areas of topography that are flatter but still have the great views. So it's fun. I think real estate and building, it's like a giant puzzle. And I love puzzles. Every piece relates to another. And it's all sort of interconnected”

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  5. “So, which do you favor the directionality of the wind? And on an island, and in this case, the wind's coming from the north and the vegetation is less lush on the northern end. So do you focus more on the southern end and have the horseback riding trails and amenities up towards the north? So there are these really interesting decisions and choices you get to reflect on”

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  6. “And then the choices like how does the sun rise and set? How do you want to angle the hotel and relations? That's awesome to the sunrise and the sunset. You obviously want people to experience those.”

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  7. “To make sure that the top unit you're not looking out and seeing a whole bunch of units you're looking out and seeing the ocean. So that's where you take this and then you start angling everything and you start thinking about, well This context do we have green roofs? So if there's any hint of a roof, it's camouflaged by vegetation that matches what already exists on the island, where the engineers become very important. Well, yeah. How do you build into a mountainside?”

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  8. “Yeah, and so much. I mean, so much of architecture you don't see, but it's decisions made. So how do you How do you create independent structures where you look out of one and don't see the other? How do you ensure the sort of the stacking and the master plan works in a way that's harmonious and vucridors and all of those elements, all of those components of decision making are super appreciated but not often thought about.”

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  9. “Well, especially on an island, it's challenging, meaning the logistics of even getting the building materials to an island. No joke. But we will execute on it. And it may not be this is sort of, as I said, early conceptual drawings, but it gives a sense of sort of wanting to honor the topography that exists. And this is obviously very modern, but making it feel right in terms of the context of the vegetation and the train that exists and not just have a beautiful glass box. Obviously, you want glass, you want to look out and see that gorgeous blue ocean. But how do you do that in a way that doesn't feel generic and isn't a squandered opportunity to create something new?”

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  10. “I mean, it's set aside. It's going to be extraordinary. Aman's going to operate the hotel for us, and there are going to be villas. And we have Carbone, who's going to be doing the food and beverage. But it's amazing to bring together all of this talent. And for me to be able to play around and flex the real estate muscles again and have some fun with it is real estate.”

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  11. “And that's a really hard thing, especially. And I think one of the things that I love most about all of these creative pursuits is that ability to work with the best people right now. I'm working with my husband. We have this 1,400 acre island in the Mediterranean, and we're bringing in the best architects and the best brands. But to have a point of view and to challenge people who are such artists respectfully, but not to be afraid to ask questions, it takes a lot of confidence to do that. And it's hard. So these are actually just internal early renderings. So we're in the process of doing the master planning now.”

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  12. “Know almost like that conductor analogy. I had this incredible group of, in this case, women assembled who had very strong points of view themselves and it created a great team.”

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  13. “Sunglasses and handbags all on the same floor. So, you know, in the beginning, it was much more collaborative. As time passed, I really sort of took the point on deciding, and this is the aesthetic for the season. These are the colors we're going to use. These are fabrics. And then working with our partners on the execution of that. But I needed to create an overlay that allowed for cohesion as the collection grew. And that was actually really fun for me because that was a little different. You know, I was typically initially responding to things that were put in front of me. And towards the end, I was. Was my partners who were responding to the things that myself and my team. But it's still I would always wanted to bring the best talent in. So I was hiring great designers and printmakers. Copywriters. And so I had this.”

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  14. “So, not being a designer, and this is true in real estate as well, I was never the architect, so I didn't necessarily have the pen in fashion the same. I was kind of like a conductor. I knew what I liked and didn't like. And I think that's really important. And that became honed for me over time. So I would have to sit a lot longer with something earlier on than later when I had more refined my aesthetic point of view. And so I think First of all, you have to have a pretty strong sense of what resonates with you. And then as in the case of my fashion business as it grew and became quite a large business and I had so many different categories, everything had to work together. So I had individual partners for each category. But if we were selling at Neem and Marcus, we couldn't have a pair of shoes that didn't relate to a dress that didn't relate to a pair of shoes.”

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  15. “A good I feel like the product, I think first and foremost, you have to have the right partner. So building a shoe, if you talk to a great shoe designer, it's like it's architecture. Like making a heel that's four inches that feels good to walk in for eight hours a day, that is an engineering feat. And so I found great partners in everything that I did. My shoe partner had found in Nine West. So he really knew what went into making a shoe wearable and comfortable. And then you overlay that with great design. And we also created this really comfortable, beautifully designed, super feminine product offering that was also affordably priced. So I think it was like the trifecta of those three things that made that, I think it made it stand out for so many people.”

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  16. “Have this incredible experience every time somebody comes up to me and tells me that they were married in a space that I had painstakingly designed. I have that experience now with my fashion company, the number of women who will come up tell me that they loved my shoes or they loved the handbags and I've had women show me their engagement rings. They got engaged with us. And it's really rewarding. It's really beautiful.”

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  17. “Just start laughing because I'm like women who do. And the fact that they couldn't conceive of it being sort of exciting and aspirational and interesting to sort of lean into working at all aspects of our lives was just fascinating to me, but showed that that was part of the problem. And I think that's why ultimately, I mean, when the business grew to be hundreds of millions of dollars in sales, we were distributed at all the best retailers across the country from Neiman Marcus to Sachs to Bloomingdales and beyond. And I think it really resonated with people in an amazing way and probably not dissimilar to how I”

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  18. “Buying these different categories, and we came up with a website called Women Who Work. And I went to a marketing agency, you know, one of the fancy firms in New York. And I said, you know, we want to create a brand campaign around this multidimensional woman who works. And what do you think? Like, can you help us? And they come back and they say, you know, we don't like the word work. We think it should be women who do.”

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  19. “The boardroom to an after school soccer game to a date night with a boyfriend to a walk in the park with their husband, like all the different ways women live their lives and creating a wardrobe for that woman who works at every aspect of their life, not just sort of the siloed professional part. And it was really compelling. We started creating great brand content and we had incredible contributors like Adam Grant, who was blogging for us at the time and creating aspirational content for working women. It was actually kind of a funny story, but I now had probably close to 11 different product categories and we were growing like wildfire. And I started to think about what would be a compelling way to sort of create interesting content for the people who”

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  20. “And posting it online with some of these classic legacy brands, really, it felt very much like it was designed by a team of men for what a woman would want to wear to the office. So we started creating this clothing that was feminine, that was beautiful, that was versatile, that would take a woman from”

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  21. “And that was the first category I launched, Ivanka Trump find jewelry and we just caught lightning in a bottle. It was really quickly after that. I met my partner who had founded Nine West Shoes, really capable partner. And we launched a shoe collection which took off and did enormously well. And then a clothing collection and handbags and sunglasses and fragrance. So we caught a moment. And we found a positioning for this, for the self-purchasing multi-dimensional woman. And we made dressing for work aspirational at the time we launched, if you wanted to buy something for an office context, like the brands that existed were the opposite of exciting. Like nobody was, you know, taking pictures of like what they were wearing to work.”

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  22. “By talking with my first of many different partners that I had in the fashion space about he actually had showed me a building to buy his family had some real estate holdings and I passed on on the real estate deal but we forged a friendship and we started talking about how in the space that he was in, fine jewelry, there was this lack of product and brands that were positioned for self-purchasing females. So everything was about, you know, the man buying the Christmas gift, the man buying the engagement ring. The stores felt like that. They were all tailored towards the male aesthetic. The marketing felt like that. And what about the woman who had a salary and was really excited to buy herself a great pair of earrings or had just received a great bonus and was going to use it to treat herself? So we thought there was a void in the marketplace.”

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  23. “I always loved fashion as a form of self expression, as a means to communicate either a truth or an illusion, depending on what kind of mood you were in. But this sort of second body, if you will. So I loved fashion and look, I mean, my mother was a big part of the reason I did, but I never thought I would go into fashion. In fact, I was graduating from Warden. It was the day of my graduation. Anna Winter calls me up and offered me a job at Vogue, which is a dream in so many ways, but I was so focused. I wanted to go into real estate and I wanted to build buildings. And I told her that. So I really thought that that was going to be the path I was taking. And then very organically, fashion, you know, it was part of my life, but it came. Into my life in a more professional capacity.”

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  24. “Not only do they not want that, but the one person who comes in and does that puts a massive target on their back Is ultimately seen as a threat. I mean, nobody really gets fired for maintaining the status quo. Even if things go poorly Way it was always done.”

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  25. “Super difficult to deconstruct that as well once it's in place, right? It's circumventing layers and asking questions, probing questions of people on the ground level is a huge challenge to the authority of the hierarchy. And there's tremendous amount of resistance to it. So it's how do you grow something in the case of a company in terms of a culture that Can scale But doesn't lose its connection to sort of real and meaningful feedback. It's not easy”

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  26. “It's oftentimes not the architection, the engineers. It's in Elon's case, probably the line worker who sees things. More clearly. So I think making sure it's not just that you're asking good questions, you're asking the right people those same good questions.”

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  27. “First principles type of way he questioned people trying to get down to sort of trying to reduce complex things to something really fundamental and simple. So I try to do that myself to the best I can. And I think it's something I very much learned from him.”

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  28. “In the circumstance of a 1,000 year storm, you will have the exact perfect temperature if there's a massive blizzard or if it's unbearably hot. But 99.9% of the time you'll never need it. And so I think it's just an enormous waste of money. So he kept asking that guy questions, and we ended up overhauling the design pretty well into the process of the whole system, saving a lot of money, creating a great system that's super functional. And so I learned a lot, and that's just one example of countless. That one really sticks out of my head because I'm like, oh my gosh, we're redesigning the whole system. We were actively under construction. So it was, but I would see him do that on a lot of different issues. He would ask people on the work level what their thoughts were, ideas, concepts, designs. And there was almost like a Socratic sort of”

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  29. “And it was enormously expensive as an undertaking. And I remember one of his first times on the site because he had really empowered me with this project and he trusted me to execute and to also rope him in when I needed it. But one of the first time he visits were walking the hallway and we're talking about how expensive this cooling system would be and heating system would be. And he starts stopping and he's asking duct workers as we walk what they think of the system that the mechanical engineers designed. First few, fine, you know, not great answers. The third guy goes, sir, if you want me to be honest with you, it's obscenely overdesigned.”

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  30. “Interest or understanding of the importance of asking questions and specifically questions of the right people. And I saw this a lot on job sites. So I remember with the old post office building, there was this massive glass topped atrium. So heating and cooling the structure was like a Herculean lift. We had the mechanical engineers provide their thoughts on how we could do it efficiently. And so that the temperature never varied.”

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  31. “Right? He does now. He DJs at Mara Lago People get a sense of, you know, he loves Andrew Lloyd Weber and all of it, Pavarati, Elton John. I mean, these were the same songs on repeat my whole childhood. I know the playlist. Love Sinatra, loves Elvis, you know, a lot of the greats, so I think I got a little bit of my love from music from him, but my mom shared that as well. I think one of the things in looking back that I think I inherited from my father as well is this sort of”

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  32. “I think my father's sense of humor is sometimes underappreciated. So he had an amazing and has an amazing sense of humor. He loved music. I think my mom loved music as well. My father always used to say that in another life, he would have been a Broadway musical producer, which is hilarious to think about, but he loves music.”

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  33. “So, like, some of these romance novels that would pick them up, the covers, but she could tell you, she could look at any royal lineage across Europe and tell you all the mistresses, all the drama. She loved it. But her face was always buried in a book. You know, my grandfather, Detto, he was the athlete. He swam professionally for the national team for Czechoslovakia. And he helped train my mom, as I was saying before, in skiing. So he was a great athlete and she was at home and she would read and cook. And so that's something I remember a lot from my childhood. And she would always say, like, I got reading from her.”

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  34. “Kitzalitza and all the other things she used to make me in my childhood, but she really was a major force in my life. My grandmother, you know, my mom was working. So, you know, my grandmother was the person who was always home every day. When I came back from school, I remember I used to shower and it would almost be like comical. I feel like in my memory and there was no washing machine I've seen on the planet that can actually do this. But in my memory, I'd go to shower, you know, and I'd drop something on the bed and I'd come back into the room after my shower and it was like folded, pressed. It was all my grandmother. She's like running after me, taking care of me. And so it's nice to be able to do that for her. I got from her reading My grandmother, she devoured books, like devoured books. She loved the more sensational ones”

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  35. “She's 97, and until she was around 94, she lived completely on her own, no help, no anything, no support. And now she requires really sort of 24-hour care. And I feel super grateful that I'm able to give her that because that's what she did for me. It's amazing for me to have my children be able to grow up and know her stories, know her recipes, check dumplings and goulage.”

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  36. “So much. It's unbelievable how dislocating the loss of a parent is. And, um, Her mother lives with me still my grandmother, who helped raise us. So that's very special. And I can ask her some of the questions that I would have, sorry, I wanted to ask my own mom, but it's hard.”

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  37. “I think you have to for me. I want to feel confident, and you don't feel confident when you're like pulling at a garment or, you know, hobbling on heels that don't fit you properly. And she was never doing those things either. So I don't know how she was wearing stuff like that that's like a 40 pound feet address. And I know this because I have it. And I wore it recently. I mean, I got a workout walking to the elevator. Like, this is a heavy dress. And you know what? It was worth it, it was great.”

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  38. “It's funny because, I mean, just even in fashion, if something's uncomfortable, to me, there's nothing that looks worse than when you see somebody like tottering around at like their heels hurt them. So they're kind of walking oddly. And, you know, it doesn't. They're not embodying their confidence in that regard. So I'm like kind of the opposite. I start with well, I want to be comfortable. And that helps me be confident and in command.”

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  39. “She did it. She used to say, There's nothing that I can't do better in heels A good one. That would be your exact thing. And when I'd complain about wearing something, you know, it was like the early 90s, everything was also like uncomfortable, these fabrics and materials. And I was, I was like, Go back and forth between being super girly and a total tomboy. But she dressed me up in these things and I'd be complaining about it. And she'd say, Yvanka pain for beauty, which I happen to totally disagree with because I think there's nothing worse than being uncomfortable. So, I haven't accepted or internalized all of this wisdom, so to speak, but it was just funny. She had a very specific point of view.”

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  40. “But I don't know. That's not the visual I have. But she was, I loved the fact that she so embodied femininity and glamour and was so comfortable being. Tough and ambitious and determined and this unbelievable businesswoman and entrepreneur at a time when she was very much alone, even for me and in the development world and so many of the different businesses that I've been in, there really aren't women outside of sales and of marketing. You don't see as many women in the development space, in the construction space, even in the architecture and design space. Maybe outside of interior design. And she was decades ahead of me. So I love hearing these stories. I love hearing somebody who's my peer tell me about their grandfather and their father and their experience with one of my parents. It's amazing.”

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  41. “Yeah, I think she really was a trailblazer. It's not uncommon in real estate for there to be multiple generations of people and so on on job sites. It was not unusual for me to run into somebody whose grandfather had worked with my grandfather in Brooklyn or Queens or whose father had worked with my mother. And they'd always tell me these stories about her rolling in and they'd hear the heels first. A lot of times the story would be like, oh gosh, like, you know, really, it's two days after Christmas. Like we thought we'd get a reprieve. But she was very exacting. You know, so I have this visual in my mind of her, you know, walking on rebar, you know, on the balls of her feet in these foreign shields. I'm assuming she actually carried flats with her.”

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  42. “It's a lot of what I love about Miami actually being so close to the ocean, I find it to be super cathartic. Memories of my mom seeing her really just in her bliss is floating around in a body of salt water.”

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  43. “Have these vignettes in my mind. Of seeing her in action and different capacities. Lot of times The context of things that I would later go on to do myself. So I would go every day, almost every day after school, and I'd go to the plaza hotel and I'd follow her around as she'd walk the hallways and just observe her. And she was so impossibly glamorous. She was doing everything. Know four and a half inch heels with this Buffant. And so it was almost like an inaccessible visual. But I think for me, when I saw her experience, the most joy tended to be by the sea. Almost always, not a pool. And I think I get this from her. Pools, yeah. I I love salt water. I love the way it makes me feel. And I think I got that from her. So we would just swim together all the time.”

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  44. “There's a prayer in Judaism you're supposed to say every morning, which is basically Thanking God for your body working. It's something, you know, so basic, but it's when it doesn't that we're grateful. So just reminding ourselves every day the basic things of a functional body of our health, of access to water, which So many millions of people around the world do not have reliably. Clarifying and super important.”

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  45. “Victor Frankl is somebody, I mean, that book and just his philosophy in general is so inspiring to me. But I think so many people, they say they want happiness, but they want conditional happiness. You know, when this and this thing happens or under these circumstances, then I'll be happy. And I think what he showed is that we can sort of cultivate these virtues within ourselves regardless of the situation we find ourselves in. Some ways, I think the meaning of life is the search for meaning in life, it's the relationships we have and we form. It's an experience we have. It's how we deal with the suffering that life inevitably presents to us. And Victor Frankl does an amazing job highlighting that under the most Horrific circumstances, and I think it's just super inspiring to me.”

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  46. “That you're believable, but not so many that you're not trusted. And imagine that as a 14-year-old, you know, that experience and having to navigate the world that way. She told me that eventually all those. Local police officers, they came to love her because one of the things she do is smuggle bad stuff back from these countries and give it to them to give their wives perfume and stockings. So she figured out the system But it's a very different experience from what I was navigating and the pressures and challenges me as a 14 year old was dealing with. So I have so much respect and admiration for her.”

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  47. “About when she was 14 and she was going to neighboring countries. And, you know, as an athlete, you were given additional freedoms that you wouldn't otherwise be afforded in these societies under communist rule. So she was able to travel where most of her friends never would be able to leave Czechoslovakia. she would come back from all of these trips and the first place where she do ski races in Austria and elsewhere and the first thing she had to do was check in at the local police and she'd sit down and she had enough wisdom at 14 to know that she couldn't appear to be lying by not being impressed by what she saw and the fact that you could get an orange in the winter but she couldn't be too excited by it that she'd become a flight risk so give enough detail”

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  48. “You wonder how much of who they were was a reaction to their experience? Would she have naturally had that sort of forward-looking, grateful, optimistic orientation? Or was it a reaction to her childhood? I think about that. I look at this picture of my mom and she was unabashedly herself. She loved flamboyance and glamour. And in some ways, I think it probably was a direct reaction to this very austere controlled childhood. You know, this was one expression of it. I think her, you know, how she dressed and how she presented, I think her. Entrepreneurial spirit and love of capitalism and all things American was another manifestation of it and one that I grew up with. I remember the story she used to tell me.”

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  49. “The fall of that same year when Warsaw Pact countries and the Soviet Union rolled in to put down and ultimately roll back all those reforms. So, for her to have lived through that, you know, she didn't come to North America until she was 23 or 24. So that was her life. As a young girl, she was on the junior national ski team for Czechoslovakia. My grandfather used to train her. put the skis on her back and walk up the mountain in Czechoslovakia because there were no there were no ski lifts. She actually made me do that when I was a child just to let me know what her experience had been if I complained that it was cold out. She's like, well, you didn't have to walk up the mountain. You'd be plenty warm if you had carried the skis up on your back. Up the last run.”

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  50. “Fundamentally, as people we desire freedom, we want agency. And my mom was like a lot of other people who grew up in similar situations where she didn't like to talk about it that often. So, one of my real regrets is that I didn't push her harder. You know, so, but I think back to the conversations we did have. And I try to imagine what it's like. She was at Charles University in Prague, which was Really like a focal point of the reforms that were ushered in during the Prague Spring and the liberalization agenda that was happening. The dance halls were opening, the student activists, and she was attending university there right at that same time. The contrast to this feeling of Freedom and progress and liberalization in the spring. And then it's so quickly being crushed.”

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