She wanted to join the Peace Corps, but got married instead.
Tony Zurlo (Nigeria 1962-64) alerted me to this small piece of information.
“The daughter of an emergency room doctor, Katie, as she was called, grew up in a Christian household in North Kingstown, R.I., graduated at the top of her class at her high school in 2007, and said in her yearbook she wanted to go into the Peace Corps. Instead she ended up married to Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Several sources carry the story:
Several sources. huffingtonpost.com is one.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/22/katherine-russell-tsarnaev-feds-interview_n_3131242.html
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