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W. Basketball. Ruthie Bolton’s brave journey from domestic violence

By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. — She's one of Auburn's legendary players in any sport. She helped Auburn to Final Fours. She's an Olympic gold medal winner. She was standout in professional basketball.

Ruthie Bolton had it all as a star basketball player at Auburn in the 1980s and as Olympian in the years that followed.

But she also had a bad marriage. And she had this:

"I remember the first time he hit me..."

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