南希对你如何获得选票，如何获得控制权，如何获得权力感兴趣。

 1962届的南希-达莱桑德罗，巴尔的摩市长的女儿，作为南希-佩洛西将成为众议院议长。

在她的毕业纪念册中，她的毕业画像旁边的题词。

"庄重的她很少被人看到，但思想和深邃的东西却在那里。

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And Nancy D’Alesandro, class of 1962, the daughter of the mayor of Baltimore, as Nancy Pelosi would become Speaker of the House. The inscription next to her graduation portrait in her senior yearbook: “Solemn she is rarely seen yet thoughts and deep are there.”

事后看来，珍妮-林奇从他们共同的政治学课程中发现了她的朋友有一天会走上的道路的线索。

她告诉我："南希总是对过程很着迷，"她说。

"我们其他人对政策、经济、社会主义感兴趣--你知道，所有这些东西。

但南希对你如何获得选票，如何获得控制权，如何获得权力感兴趣。

我认为这是无聊的一端，我想，'好吧，我不知道为什么她对这些如此感兴趣'。

With the benefit of hindsight, Jeanne Lynch recognized clues in the political science classes they shared for the path her friend would one day take. “Nancy was always fascinated with the process,” she told me. “The rest of us were into policy, economics, socialism—you know, all that kind of stuff. But Nancy was into how you get the votes out, how you get control, how you get the power. I thought that was the boring end of it, and I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know why she’s so interested in that.’”

几年后，她明白了原因。

"一旦传出她要接管加州的民主党，你就知道她已经上路了，而且突然间一切都合拍了，"林奇说。

"这就像拼图的碎片落到了地方。

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Years later, she understood why. “Once it came out that she was taking over the Democratic Party in California, you knew she was on her way, and it suddenly all fit,” Lynch said. “It was like the pieces of a puzzle falling into place.”