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Heidi Stevens: Why Elizabeth Warren's exit feels personal to women

If this week could be summed up in one image, it would be the photo of Jill Biden shoving a vegan protester off her husband's stage.

The photo, shot on Super Tuesday, was celebrated as #Fierce and #JillBidenMVP and #FightLikeAGirl. But all I see is a metaphor for the full-scale, tireless, sometimes ugly struggle that women undertake over and over and over, only to watch all the biggest platforms remain occupied by men.

The end of Elizabeth Warren's candidacy, fewer than 48 hours after that moment was captured, felt like a personal loss. To me, and to

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