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What Did Huma Abedin Really Learn From Hillary Clinton?

What Did Huma Really Learn From Hillary?
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Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state, reads documents with Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin prior to a bilateral talk at the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Ministerial and related meetings on Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.S. said it will intensify sanctions against North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship, targeting members of Kim Jong Il's regime and the foreign banks that help sustain the country's weapon's industy. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images

As the many glowing profiles of Huma Abedin in recent months have noted, she learned a lot working as Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman since the 1990s. But maybe the biggest lesson Abedin learned was not just how to help her husband survive a sex scandal, but how to launch her own political career.

On Wednesday, spurred on by the latest turn in her husband Anthony Weiner's serial online sexual embarrassments, Harper's Bazaar published an excerpt of an essay by Abedin that will run its September issued, titled "The Good Wife," in which she explains why she decided to stand by her man. Weiner resigned from Congress in 2011 after his first sexting scandal and then apologized on Tuesday for newly released sexts exchanged last summer under the name Carlos Danger. The essay comes with a portrait of Abedin looking approachable and friendly in a feminine green dress, ruffled and belted at the waist. "Three years ago I was a single workaholic," Abedin confesses. But a lot has changed since then.

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