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I couldn't think of a better thing to hear for someone to tell you. I don't know how you did it

You survived you did the right thing

Because they're already blaming themselves for being in that situation in the first place and what you don't ever think about when someone

Is out to hurt you. That's because the plants in their head

In 1994 Karen Carol then Coleman was working as an emergency room nurse and living in the Bronx, New York with her husband Ron

I met Ron on a blind date. He was very different from most of the men I was used to. He has sort of a

Kind of like an edge to him. There was something attractive about the bad boy, but not quite the bad boy

He was spontaneous. He just like black life and I said, oh, this was kind of nice

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