I thought of all that Mum and Eddie had done for me over the years. Mum getting on that plane to America and later buying me my first laptop before I headed off to the Balkans. Eddie keeping my love of the underdog alive with his Irish fight songs. Both of them spending an untold number of hours editing chapters of my books—even after their own long days of work at the hospital. I had traveled a vast distance to represent the United States at the UN.
