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Karen was effervescent and effortlessly attractive, with a broad, intelligent face under feathered blond hair. (Her hairdresser once observed wryly that other clients paid extravagantly for what nature had casually dropped on Karen—multiple shades of blond in captivating layers.) She was conventionally hot, and a slight chipmunky overbite added a dose of adorable. In the high school band she played the girlie instruments—flute and piccolo—and she could be girl-bossy, like Lucy van Pelt.
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Gene Weingarten (One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America)