shanta wanted a doll. her parents laughed and shook their head. her favorite brother went to the mountains, caught the biggest squirrel he could find. kill today, cleaned out the meat, stuffed the clean squirrel with dry grass and presented the squirrel to shanta as her make believe baby. shanta loved her brother's gift but could never eat squirrel meat. the sound of loud bombs went off. we both jumped. last winter when we heard loud noises we wondered if they were bombs or fire works set off for a celebration or if they were professional or homemade rockets being exchanged with demonstrators and the federalists. shanta put her doll against her shoulder and patted the doll's back in the universal gesture of burping the baby. her last words to me last night were; does anyone know how many babies and children have been killed in iraq? how many babies and children are being killed or thrown out of their homes all over the world. why does everyone want to ask indigenous pe indigenous people of the world as if we were garbage to be thrown away. when i

. >> shanta. >> she was just somebody who i wanted to give a french name too. we thought it was time for a french name in the family. it means to seeing it clearly. -- sing clearly. >> kismet. >> shanta was supposed to be the last child. i said this is kismet. that is how she got that name. she is 22. is named for a great lawyer. he was named atticus omega. alpha and omega were done. people said, you may want to change that. we did end up with one more amazing daughter, sunday phoenix. sunday was the end of the week's worth of children. if i wouldn't know me would have seven, i would have named them, would then name them sunday, monday. -- i would have named them sunday, monday. she was think the knicks because she was born -- was named it the next pitch was born after my husband's was in that tough campaign. the phoenix is a wonderful symbol. >> you lost the 2010 race. >> i lost in the democratic primary to a woman by the name of anne custer. it was a good experience. in the primaries and both parties, it is increasingly the case that people who are probably m