Moments That Made Us

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"I remember watching as the president of Nigeria signed the bill into law. I was so joyous. There are not words for it. We shut down work for the day to celebrate... And I knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life."

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"They said my name was beautiful. No one had ever told me that before."

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"My name is Alaa, but I went by Ricky for 16 years while struggling to accept my Arabic heritage."

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"I want female aspiring developers to know it's possible. As long as the passion is there, it will push you to make it."

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"I dropped straight to my knees and prayed with all my heart and asked God to please heal him or at least prolong his life until I returned home to see him again."

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[Moments That Made Us @MomentsMade]

"I remember watching as the president of Nigeria signed the bill into law. I was so joyous. There are not words for it. We shut down work for the day to celebrate... And I knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life."

[Moments That Made Us @MomentsMade]

"I'm really not sure why I did it. But for some reason, I always brought her tea in that same green mug. And—to me—that mug has come to represent something special: hope, love, and gratitude."

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"It was small at the beginning. A line of cocaine, or 'ching,' as we called it in Scotland."

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"Taking the leap from radiography to software development and product building has strengthened my resolve. I do things because I want to do them, not because I am compelled to."

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"At the hospital, the doctor told me I had a condition called costochondritis, an inflammation of the cartilage connecting the ribs to the breastbone. He told me I had almost stressed myself to death."

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"Most people don't have to wonder about whether they are a woman or a man. I never saw myself as being anything. I just existed."

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"I thought, 'This isn't an avenue to another place... This is it. I missed my chance at medical school and this is my life now."

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"I had no idea what was happening to my body. I thought I was going to die, but I was glad my mom was the last thing I would be able to see."

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"Maybe the reason these things happened to me is because I am the person who is going to stand up and create change."

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"When I turned 11, I told my grandfather I was ready to start competing. 'You can't box, kid,' he said. 'It's illegal for girls."

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"Over 30 of my friends have been killed because of their gang lifestyle... I realized that would be my future if I stayed in the gang and continued to go the way I was going."

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"If I can come back from wanting to kill myself every single day, and from twice trying and failing, I know that others can, too."

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"But my state has been ravaged by division. There are places Muslims don't go and there are places Christians don't go. Although we share these mountains, we didn't really share them."