It was the first time that I had really ever been around Barrie Callahan, so she strikes me -that memory strikes me because my mother had known her previously. And she was speaking about the textbook, just questioning them. I don't remember her exact words.
The author has a crush on her. 
( z1 crush :ARG0 ( z2 person :ARG0-of ( z3 author ) ) :ARG1 ( z4 she ) )