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1The invitation arrived through my mother’s assistant:The Harrison Family Annual Gala benefiting the Arts Foundation. Black tie. November 18th. Your mother requests you decline this year due to scheduling conflicts.I froze on the last line. My mother had preemptively uninvited me from the family’s biggest social event—the gala she’d built into a premier fundraiser, attracting politicians, business leaders, and cultural icons. The event where I would apparently be an embarrassment.I was 29, more at home in strategy sessions than in silk gowns and champagne flutes. I’d spent five years in what my mother vaguely called “political consulting,” which, to her, meant handing out campaign flyers. She didn’t know I was the chief campaign strategist for Governor Rebecca Chin, the first woman elected governor in our state, and the architect of the strategy that defeated a 20-year incumbent. Operatives nationwide sought my advice. But my work happened behind the scenes—successful strategists stayed invisible. Explaining it to my mother only led to glazed eyes and awkward subject changes. She’d decided I was failing, an embarrassment to hide from her sophisticated circle.