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"It's a lot harder to do this as a woman than as a man," says Katie Couric. "I'm just so averse to the unimpeachable statement ... I really like uncertainty, you know? A couple of other thoughts on why this world isn't for everyone", she adds. "[The] fact that they lost to the Lakers makes it hot."

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