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couple years after graduating from high

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school i needed a job

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and

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i my sister worked for nasa in the

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stands school program

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and she suggested that i

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apply

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and i did

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hi my name is monica bowie i work for

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so i

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started working at nasa in um

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1986

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and my supervisor and i

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clicked when i was hired and she took me

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under her wing and

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she

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showed me how to

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um

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support the safety panel you know

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how to make sure that when we have

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my family used to call me miss nasa

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because you know it was like she thinks

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she's miss nasa but i've actually had

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the opportunity

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to go around the world um

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and support um

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heads of agency meetings and i remember

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i remember sitting in a meeting with

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about 100 people

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and i remember looking around the

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meeting and

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i was the only only african-american in

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the meeting

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and

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i was the lowest grade i know for sure

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in the meeting but no one knew that i

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mean people would treat me

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as if

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i was at this same grade level i

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remember sitting in there just smiling

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you know and i was like okay i no longer

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have a job i really have a career now

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and

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i would like to be remembered

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as a person that

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always went the extra mile to help

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someone

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my mother taught me to

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always give back you know blessings flow

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when you always get back

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no one has reached their goals by

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themselves so

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go to school stay in school and

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focus on school and do something that

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you love