Personal
Her parents are Ernie, a real estate developer, and Joanie. Her older brother Gene played college football as a tight end, first at Duke and then Middle Tennessee; after he graduated from Middle Tennessee in 2009, he returned to Delaware to work in their father's company. Her oldest sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) is blind and deaf and suffers from autism and cerebral palsy.
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