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It's a crisp fall night in November of 1983.

Inside an apartment in Washington, D.C.,

a small group of women sit on folding chairs engaged in a lively discussion

and surrounded by empty containers of Chinese take-out.

As usual, their conversation is centered on politics.

Nicknamed Team A, these dinner guests are a cohort of some of the most influential and well-connected

women in Washington, and tonight they're on a mission.

As the country gears up for the 1984 presidential primaries,

there are rumors that a candidate might select a woman as his running mate

for the first time in American history.

Team A is eager to make those whispers a reality.

So for weeks, they've been meticulously studying the records of prominent women politicians,

and they finally landed on a candidate,

Democratic Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro,

who's included in the group of women and just cracking into her fortune cookie.

With a gentle twist, she breaks the cookie open,

and the group of women fall silent as Geraldine pulls out the paper message inside.

Her eyebrows shoot up and surprise as she studies its prophecy which reads,

you will win big in 84. Ferraro looks up to see her peers smiling and staring back at her,

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