Kate and I met our freshman year of high school, but we didn’t truly bond until we discovered our mutual love of Mischief as sophomores. She’s a born cheerleader who had always felt out of place at our uptight, too-cool private high school; my tendency toward bossiness wasn’t winning me many friends either. But it turned out we were perfectly matched. She has the kind of enthusiasm and vision that inspire people; I have the detail orientation and pain-in-the-ass-ness required to get them to actually follow through. In a sense, Kate was my first candidate, and I’ve been campaigning for her ever
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