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"Think what her father would have missed if Kara hadn't been tenacious enough to pursue, not just her own identity, but his as well."—Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC's Morning Joe Kara Hewes had never seen her father, Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, until one transformational moment when she awoke in the middle of the night as a TV news anchor announced his candidacy. One look at his picture and she knew she needed to find him.Her letters and phone calls went unanswered, so at seventeen, Kara hired a lawyer and announced her paternity suit before a packed press conference. In the middle of the media frenzy, Governor Sundlun did the unexpected and invited Kara to come live with him so he could get to know her better.Kara knew that in order to move forward with her father, she had to make the choice to forgive the past.
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Kara Sundlun is an Emmy Award winning television journalist. She anchors the news for WFSB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Connecticut and hosts the popular daytime talk show Better Connecticut. Her series Kara's Cures is a mainstream guide to health and spirituality, she is also a contributor for the Huffington Post.Kara was named "Best Reporter" by Hartford Magazine, "Top 40 under 40" Hartford Business Journal and Connecticut Magazine, and is a board member for Dress for Success Hartford.She is married to fellow news anchor Dennis House and mom to cherished children Helena and Julian.
