largest drop-off in U.S. college enrollment in 50 years Several weeks into the program, Evie decided to tell her mom privately about her gender identity. The news came as a relief for the congresswoman. “I remember it really distinctly because this all went down right around eighth-grade graduation, and I was just joyful when she told me,” Newman says. “What I realized is that she had been pretending to be something that she was not, and the notion of her allowing herself to be authentic and everyone around her supporting her authenticity — I can't describe it other than I think I threw my hands up in the air and I was like, ‘Yay!’” The agency is clearly proud of its history, and to be sure, it has notched a few legitimately impressive wins over the centuries, like spying for the Union during the Civil War,providing support Either way, many people are taking their appearance last nightto be a sign that they are publicly official