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" WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns. "

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" We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again. "

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