Hoda Kotb Calls Off Her Two-Year Engagement With Longtime Beau to Remain Best Friends

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Hoda Kotb Calls Off Her Two-Year Engagement With Longtime Beau to Remain Best Friends

After eight years together and more than two years of being engaged, Hoda Kotb and Joel Schiffman have decided to call off their engagement.

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(1877) Alexander Crummell, “Address Before the American Geographical Society”

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(1845) Frederick Douglass, “My Slave Experience in Maryland”

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