They say the body keeps score—every experience, every moment, quietly stored away until something brings it back to life. A scent. A sound. A building.
For Audrey, it was the Tanzanian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Driving by that building during a family trip, a flood of memories returned: the penny war fundraiser in her fourth-grade classroom, the jars lined up by the whiteboard, the friendly competition that masked something deeper. She remembered the fun—but also the disbelief she felt, even then, that girls somewhere in the world were facing unimaginable barriers just to attend school.
That memory—dormant but never forgotten—planted the seed for something bigger: a desire to act, to give back, to be part of the solution.
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