Karen Blair
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@TerpsWBB Associate Head Coach 🐢🏀 Work Hard & Spread Joy IG/SC: CoachKarenBlair
College Park, MD
Joined April 2009
No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is Everything.
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So grateful for the opportunity to be a part of @umdwbb. #TerpFamily
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Defense is not a game of hands; it’s a game of feet. Your feet have to dominate on defense. Your hands put the other team on the free throw line. -Bob Knight.
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Thank you, @BrendaFrese for allowing me to a part of the best program in the country. I am grateful to be surrounded by the best on & off the court. Everyone's coaching journey is different & I would not be where I am today without the support of so many. Thank you so much!.
Karen Blair has been promoted to Associate Head Coach! 👏🏽🐢. 👉🏽
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Life is 2 short to wake up w/ regrets. ❤️ the people who treat u right, forgive the ones who don't & believe that everything happens for a reason. If u get the chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
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Congrats @brendafrese on becoming the winningest coach in UMD history! You have & continue to impact so many people. The wins are nice but your legacy is sooo much more. You know how to win with people & make us all better. Thank you for being you. #500 #RelationshipsMatter
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Thank you @coachoboyle for allowing me to be a part of @VCU_WBB & for having faith & trust in me to help lead, teach & mentor. #Grateful
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That loyalty hits different when it’s mutual 🐢❤️💛🖤🤍.
Terp Nation stay the course & love this group as much as we love y’all!!❤️🐢
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Happy birthday to our hard working and fun loving leader and mentor @BrendaFrese. Hope your special day brings you all that your heart desires. We don’t get older, we get better 🎂 🥳😁
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Special group that took us on a wonderful journey. They believed and played for each other. Thrived under pressure against great competition all year. We’re a joy to be around and spread joy to many. Thank you for the memories and MOments ❤️.
All love to this squad ❤️. Proved a lot of people wrong and did it with class. Proud of the memories they created for Maryland
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So blessed to have found my passion and purpose. Truly ❤️ this game and all it continues to give back to me and those around me. Excited for the future ahead!! #Grateful #FearTheTurtle.
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This. This group. These people. Love our Terp family. My heart is full. Every championship is special. Earned Not Given hits a little different this year. ❤️ 🏆
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What you do everyday matters more than what you do every once in awhile. A habit is a continual set of behaviors. Habits are something you do in a regular & repeated way. Routines are a set of habits. Create great habits!!.
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Your smile is you logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after an experience with you becomes your trademark. -Jay Danzie.
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It’s not about what you do in life, but how you do it. It’s about how much passion, love, and soul you put into what you do that matters.
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Congrats to our leader!! Thank you for your leadership and pushing all of us to be the best version of ourselves🙌🙌🙌.
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When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. -Harvey Mackay.
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This is coaching and making an impact. It’s about more than basketball. It is a relationship built on trust. A bond that will last a lifetime. A special pair of Terps💛🤍❤️🖤.
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Thank you Terp Nation, family and friends for all your support and making this weekend a SWEET one. We appreciate you and thank you for being our 6th man. No better place to play than at Xfinity!!.
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Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.
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The man, the myth, the legend KB. I lost my biggest cheerleader but will continue to live life w the passion & zest he did. Thankful I was able to spend so much time with him & so many cherished memories. Rest In Peace Pops. Love you always ❤️ .
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Thank you, Terp Nation, for all of your support and for making Xfinity one of the hardest places to play in the country for our opponents. We appreciate our 6th man!!.
Appreciate all your support at home this season, Terp Nation!. Time to take this show on the road
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Congrats to future Terp Diamond Miller on her undefeated season and TOC Title 🏀🐢🔥🏀🐢🔥 .MVP and stars of the game from No. 1 Franklin's TOC title win over No. 3 Saddle River Day
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What a weekend. There were comebacks, game winners, & the pain of defeat. Moments that make 🏀 great. Lessons learned, motivation fueled, points proven and victories earned. Thanks for the moments & memories. Each game is a gift for us all. Looking forward to May. Think TERPS.
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Safe travel to all this weekend. Results are measured by wins & losses but the bonding of teams, parents, & coaches is the prize. Cherish those moments off the court as much as on the court. The journey is about the friendships and life lessons through hoops. Love this game 🏀
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Championship day! Enjoyed watching our future and catching up with these true champions @BrendaFrese @CoachLangley @CoachMcNamee
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On the road again! Ready to see some great competition and support future Terps!!!
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Treat people well, work hard, and add value to others. That is how you create cheerleaders that will help grow your network and your career. Be a great human being who cares for others and the rest takes care of itself.
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Another great day of recruiting in the books! Love watching the future of our game. Coaching is a passion & a journey. Grateful to spend time with @CoachKantor who has been on the journey with me for the long haul. 🙌❤️🏀
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A tough day all around. Together we will be there for each other and we will keep working. Family over everything.
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DMV networking opportunity! Maryland WBB Coaches Clinic is back and wants to see you! Will be a great day of sharing and a chance to see and meet the #1 scoring team in the country last year. Come spend October 24th with the Terps!
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Besides @BrendaFrese tireless work ethic it is the time she spends investing in others & building relationships. Her success is because she knows how to motivate, build you up & is always teaching life lessons way beyond basketball. She makes everyone around her better @TerpsWBB.
Part of what’s propelling Brenda Frese (@BrendaFrese) to a record 500th win as Maryland’s (@TerpsWBB) head coach is tireless work. Part of it is a deep culture of family she’s instilled in her programs. Story:
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Actions show you who someone really is; words show you who they pretend to be. Be about your actions.
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Thank you to this selfless group for all your hard work all season long. @umdwbb_managers we appreciate everything you do for all of us. Thank you for always having a great attitude and bringing joy to our days ❤️ ❤️
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Family stands by you without flinching. Can’t wait until you can get back out on the court, Faith.
Through thick and thin we stick together 🤞🏼 excited to see what the future holds for the year to come with @BrendaFrese and @TerpsWBB ❤️🐢 #terpforlife
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Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. -Henry Ford
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🤩🥳This is so well deserved!! No one sees all the hard work she puts in behind the scenes. She does things the right way building relationships & valuing people. That is why she continues to sustain success & makes it look easy. Congrats to the one & only @BrendaFrese!.
Lost five starters & rebuilt a roster. Went 21-2 in the regular season. Went 17-1 in conference play. Still won the league. All in a pandemic. No one has done it better, especially this year. For the fourth time in her career, @BrendaFrese is the @BigTen Coach of the Year.
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"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the ‘me’ for the ‘we.’" Phil Jackson.
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No better place to be than Maryland. Excited to talk to future Terps and share our passion for this great game and University. #JoinThePursuit #FearTheTurtle
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Love working with this group! Get ready Terp Nation 🐢🔥🐢🔥 We are putting in work! Grateful for my Terp Family! #UnitedPursuit.
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When I grew up, I woke up every day and my mom was there. I took it for granted. She's never tired – or she never showed it. Be as tough as your mothers. They show up all the time. -Mike Krzyzewski.
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Terp Nation help us welcome @PinzanElisa to College Park!! You are going to love her personality and how she plays the game!!!!.
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She makes it look easy but winning and sustaining an elite level of success is hard work! @BrendaFrese leads by example and always makes it about others!! @TerpsWBB is a special place because of her.
Celebrating 20 seasons of success under two-time National Coach of the Year @BrendaFrese. Thrilled Coach Frese will be leading our Terrapins through at least the 2028-29 season. ➡️ . #FearTheTurtle.
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Champs! Earned not given. Proud of this group and more work to do! #FearTheTurtle.
CHAMPS!. With tonight's win, Maryland has clinched at least a share of the Big Ten Regular Season Championship! 🏆. #FearTheTurtle
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There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline & the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment. -Nick Saban.
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Don't adapt to the energy in the room. Influence the energy in the room!.
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Big Congrats to our leader @BrendaFrese on win 500🏀🐢🏀🐢 Love being a part of the journey. #Frese500.
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Each season is a new journey no matter how many remain the same. What I will remember about this family is that they persevered. It was not an easy year. We rode the waves of inconsistency due to a variety of reason but at the end, we stuck together and fought until the end!
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🐢🏀 Great day to be a Terp! Six @TerpsWBB will be competing today!.3x at 11:55, 5:45, 6:35 and AmeriCup at 6:15 pm. Tune in and support @MC__23 @katiekbenz @Ashleyyowusu15 @Reese10Angel @FMasonius @lovediamond01
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Ready to kickoff session two looking for future 🐢. Be on the 👀 for @BrendaFrese @CoachSRobinson @terrynooner repping @umdwbb #WeAreMaryland
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GAME DAY! @k_fratz and myself joining in the fun for shoot around. Thanks @Theylove_kira for catching our “first” attempt at the #duochallenge #coachesforthewin #beatnebraska #FearTheTurtle
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Great day to be a Terp!!.
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Proud of our team. Great road win vs South Carolina! Had 6 players in double figures. #FearTheTurtle
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Congrats @katiekbenz You put in the work. For all that know you, this is not a surprise. Proud of you and enjoy the journey!!.
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Make time to pause, reset and enjoy nature. Self-care matters. “It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” Brene Brown
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THANK YOU fans for the loud cheers & amazing support yesterday! Best fans in the country❤️💛🖤🤍.
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Excited to welcome @Reese10Angel to the Terp family. Happy to keep her home. Keeping the DMV at UMD! #UnitedPursuit #FearTheTurtle.
Thrilled to 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 keep 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵 𝓡𝓮𝓮𝓼𝓮 right here at 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 and welcome her into our Maryland family! 🐢🌟. 👉🏽 #TerpFamily // @Reese10Angel
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Teamwork divides the tasks and multiplies the successes. -Abigail Johnson
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Grateful for this 🐢 group!! ❤️🏆🏀❤️🏆🏀.
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Congratulations @chloelbibby!! Go be great! You have put in the consistent work behind the scenes and have earned this opportunity!!!.
Congratulations to @chloelbibby for signing a training camp contract with the Minnesota Lynx! 🐢👏. #ProTerps x #TerpFamily
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Almost Go Time!!! @umdwbb is ready to watch some great games and future 🐢s tomorrow. 👀 for @BrendaFrese @CoachSRobinson @k_fratz #FearTheTurtle
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"Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.”.
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Thank you Terp Nation for all your support. We appreciate you and your energy matters!! Great team win!.
RED ALERT! TERPS WIN!!!.
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Terp Family is complete 🐢.
Final piece to the puzzle! Another GREAT day to be a TERP!!! 🥳🐢❤️
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The best times are always found when friends and family gather around. Thankful for all my Michigan peeps who came out to support the Terps!
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Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them and wise enough to correct them.- Amine Ayad.
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Special night watching dreams come true for Diamond and Abby. ❤️.
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Love to see it @B1Gwbball. Four teams in the Sweet 16 again!! Congrats to @IndianaWBB @OhioStateWBB @umichwbball.
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FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours. -Zig Ziglar.
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“Joy is a choice. Joy is the attitude we have when we’re doing something we believe in, something that gives us purpose, or something we love, regardless of the results.”
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July. Best month of the summer!! Dreams turn into reality. Players make a name for themselves. Love this game and blessed to be a coach.
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A little recruiting humor for all my fellow recruiting coordinators out there 😂. Keep building relationships, planning and organizing. You are appreciated🙌🏻
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"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”.
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You can meet somebody tomorrow who has better intentions for you than someone you've known forever. time means nothing. character does.
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Happy March Madness! Go Terps.
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Maryland day and @BrendaFrese birthday on the same day….coincident we think not. Happy birthday, Coach B! Appreciate all you do for us and love your sense of humor and dance moves 😁😁😁.
Happy birthday to our fearless leader and an amazing lady, @BrendaFrese!! . Enjoy your special day, Coach B!! 🐢❤️🎉
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No one more deserving than @JustJakiaa. Go be great!! We believe in you!!!.
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👇👇👇👇.
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We are proud of you! We know it is not easy but love seeing you grow and love your resilience to keep getting a little bit better each day!! Learning to celebrate the small wins is a big deal!!.
Physical therapy has been a journey thus far, I’m almost 13 weeks post op and I’m proud to say I’ve made great progress. Learning how to walk again, gaining my muscle back, breaking through mental barriers. I’m learning to embrace the small achievements. God’s got me 🤞🏼❤️
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. -Barbara De Angelis.
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Well said @cathyreese5!! My college experience was the best time of my life and with the best people. I want that same experience for every player I coach. #Legend.
🚨🚨MUST SEE🚨🚨 @MarylandWLax head coach Cathy Reese (@cathyreese5) gets emotional when asked about her players saying their time at Maryland is the best 4 years of their life #Terps @wusa9 @WUSA9sports
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“You have to see all adversity as an opportunity to pull ahead because most people see it as an invitation to quit. The harder it gets, the better chance you have of separating yourself from everyone else.”.
Basketball is Psychology XXIX. The Offseason Dip. 🏀🧠.
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The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. -Dave DeBusschere
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As much as talent counts, effort counts twice. -Angela Duckworth.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden.
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A true sisterhood. Every day was filled with ❤️, laughter & a competitive spirit. Thankful for all they accomplished & the honor & privilege to be a part of their journey. Grateful for the leadership, dedication & hard work of our seniors @__KC5 @StephMJ24 @sara_vujacic and Blair.
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When I look back on life, I see pain, mistakes & heart ache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, & pride in myself.
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Cutting is so important to great offense. Players must understand that every cut you make is not always for you. Hard cuts often get others open – Kevin Eastman.
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Practice like you've never won, in everything you do. Perform like you've never lost. -Bernard F. Asuncion.
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Be proud of how you’ve been handling these past months. The silent battles you fought, the moments you had to.humble yourself, wiped your own tears and pat yourself on the back. Celebrate your strength! -Priscilla Ransom.
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Great study on what makes teams great. The golden rule of treat others as you would like to be treated. “The special ingredient of successful teams- how teammates treated one another.”.
180 teams were studied for 3 years. All successful teams had 1 thing in common. Find out what it is and how to implement it here⬇️🏀🧠.
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Congrats to our fearless leader @BrendaFrese. Add another honor for @TerpsWBB 2x National Coach of the year. #Mi22ion.
ICYMI: @BrendaFrese will become the first woman to be inducted into the Washington DC Metro Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, @Olivia7News writes.
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B1G regular season Champs. Earned not given. Battle tested. Proud of the leadership and team work of this squad. ❤️💛🖤 More work to do. 🐢🐢
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If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts.
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