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On the recordAugust 8, 2008
Because of her recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage, our private matter can no longer be wholly private.
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Elizabeth Edwards
New Hampshire

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Elizabeth Edwards responds to the public revelations about her husband's alleged affair.

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