AD“It’s recognition,” she said of Ocasio-Cortez’s response to a self-described “nobody,” whose Twitter following just rocketed from 98 to more than 4,000. Before Wednesday, Jacobs said, she had tried get in vain to get in touch with Ocasio-Cortez and share her pride. A few hours before her note to Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, Jacobs had tweeted a poem of her own. “In another world I danced with my classWrote poetry standing at our classroom windowLaughed at the silly teacher’s drawings on the board. All the unknowing is undoing me.”Then came the reconnection she says she has wanted to make for years.

Source: Washington Post August 13, 2020 19:56 UTC