WOLFEBORO — Politics, as they say, can make for strange bedfellows, but in the case of state Sen. Jeb and Karen Bradley of Wolfeboro, politics is what brought them together.
After previous divorces, Jeb and Karen are happy to have a life of shared values and pursuits, including mountain-climbing, gardening — and yes, politics.
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