"She wasn’t afraid of getting down in the trenches with you when you were at your worst or things were at their worst and helping you figure out how to put the puzzle pieces back together."
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Cynthia Wilkes as quoted in Foluke Akinradewo Gunderson ’09 wins gold at her third Olympics, first as a mother, The Stanford Daily, August 29, 2021.
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