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Jennifer Klepper

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Jennifer Klepper is the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Road Trip and Unbroken Threads.

Born and raised in Iowa and Nebraska, she attended college in Dallas, law school in Charlottesville, and worked in Texas and Massachusetts before settling for good in Maryland. She's worked for Big Law, small law, start-ups, and Google, most recently co-founding tech start-up Early Works. She lives in a forest by a river near Annapolis, Maryland.
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	Unbroken Threads 4.22 avg rating — 860 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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