[ Annabeth makes coffee the way the Doctor does; it took one of the more modern teens to explain a Starbucks to Claire, with all of the different coffee drinks that seem to her to be mostly sugar and milk. That's the future though, apparently, so she thinks nothing of it, only adding a little milk to hers. Then she nods seriously at the statement Annabeth makes. She makes a mental note to ask about her schooling, curious but acknowledging what was said. ]
We did see theft quite often. And of course, now there are so many museums on two continents filled with things that most certainly didn't originate there. I never knew how to feel about taking my daughter to the Smithsonian and its adjacent campuses at times, when I knew where things originated from, and where they should've been.
[ She remembers late nights of Lamb and his partner fretting, planning, sometimes arguing over it. Moving on and grabbing another cookie, this time Claire nibbles as she nods. Antiquities can always be circled back to. For now, she moves forward. ]
I was a nurse, then I went to medical school and became a surgeon. First woman to graduate Harvard medical. [ She says that with pride, will always mention it, because she overcame harassment, belittlement, sexism and misogyny, and she fought to be in the top of her class, to then go on to be the best trauma surgeon in the greater Boston area. ] I didn't think I would do any of that, to be completely honest with you.
[ Here, they finally come to a point where Claire feels she can segue a bit. ]
I'd decided on nursing school, and about halfway through, the second world war started. Everything was fast-tracked, there was no graduation ceremony. We were rushed through and shipped out, and I was on battlefields for five years or so. I was only a little older than you. [ Both of them having to do impossible things young; Claire knows but hates that Annabeth will understand, even keeping in mind that Annabeth is hardly a typical young woman. ] I was married, too. I'd known Frank for a while, he was a historian my uncle worked with. We were married around a month before he was shipped off, so I knew him, but I didn't know him.
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We did see theft quite often. And of course, now there are so many museums on two continents filled with things that most certainly didn't originate there. I never knew how to feel about taking my daughter to the Smithsonian and its adjacent campuses at times, when I knew where things originated from, and where they should've been.
[ She remembers late nights of Lamb and his partner fretting, planning, sometimes arguing over it. Moving on and grabbing another cookie, this time Claire nibbles as she nods. Antiquities can always be circled back to. For now, she moves forward. ]
I was a nurse, then I went to medical school and became a surgeon. First woman to graduate Harvard medical. [ She says that with pride, will always mention it, because she overcame harassment, belittlement, sexism and misogyny, and she fought to be in the top of her class, to then go on to be the best trauma surgeon in the greater Boston area. ] I didn't think I would do any of that, to be completely honest with you.
[ Here, they finally come to a point where Claire feels she can segue a bit. ]
I'd decided on nursing school, and about halfway through, the second world war started. Everything was fast-tracked, there was no graduation ceremony. We were rushed through and shipped out, and I was on battlefields for five years or so. I was only a little older than you. [ Both of them having to do impossible things young; Claire knows but hates that Annabeth will understand, even keeping in mind that Annabeth is hardly a typical young woman. ] I was married, too. I'd known Frank for a while, he was a historian my uncle worked with. We were married around a month before he was shipped off, so I knew him, but I didn't know him.