She and her husband lived in Trumbull, Connecticut, and "enjoy traveling and spending time at our lake home" in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region.

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But it would certainly make a nervous Europe stretch out a pleading hand to the United States, as this newly aggressive Russia poked its finger into the Baltic area, the Balkans and the explosive region where Europe meets Muslim south-west Asia.

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