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<b>To:</b> Blanca Mancilla<br>
<b>Cc:</b> women-of-openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Women-of-openstack] #IStandWithAhmed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">FYI— I want to do something for Ayisha. That’s Ahmed’s sister. She’s 17. Confident. Saavy. Handling calls and emails. Wow. Floored me. Remarkable young woman!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>nikacost <<a href="mailto:nikacost@cisco.com">nikacost@cisco.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Beth Cohen <<a href="mailto:bfcohen@luthcomputer.com">bfcohen@luthcomputer.com</a>>, "Barrett, Carol L" <<a href="mailto:carol.l.barrett@intel.com">carol.l.barrett@intel.com</a>>, "Linda Skrocki (lskrocki)" <<a href="mailto:lskrocki@cisco.com">lskrocki@cisco.com</a>>,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Niki Acosta (nikacost) <<a href="mailto:nikacost@cisco.com" target="_blank">nikacost@cisco.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ahmed’s sister. She’s young, along with being gracious and incredibly confident. Smart girl! We’re now set up so donations go straight to them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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