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Balancing family, new role are priorities for first lady Susanne Shore

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Balancing family, new role are priorities for first lady Susanne Shore

• Kathryn Cates Moore | Lincoln Journal Star
• Feb 14, 2015
• Feb 14, 2015 Updated Feb 16, 2015
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Nebraska first lady, Susanne Shore, watches the Iowa vs. Nebraska gymnastics meet with her two daughters, Margot Ricketts, 15, right, Eleanor Ricketts, 13, center, and her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, and son, Roscoe Ricketts, 15, left, who puts his hand on his father's head after getting a snack, Feb. 7 at the Devaney Sports Center. Shore said she and her family like to go to as many sporting events as possible.

• KAYLEE EVERLY/Lincoln Journal Star

Susanne Shore dances with her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, during the first dance of the evening at the inaugural gala at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

• TESSA LIGHTY/Journal Star file photo

First lady Susanne Shore scans the galleries in the legislative chamber during the swearing-in ceremony for Gov. Pete Ricketts last month.

• KRISTIN STREFF/Journal Star file photo

Gov. Pete Ricketts walks in with first lady Susanne Shore during the  inaugural gala at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

• MATT RYERSON/Journal Star file photo

Susanne Shore, Nebraska's first lady, cheers during the Iowa vs. Nebraska gymnastics meet with her two daughters, Margot Ricketts (right) and Eleanor Ricketts, her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, and son, Roscoe Ricketts.

• KAYLEE EVERLY, Journal Star file photo

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Kathryn Cates Moore | Lincoln Journal Star

Nebraska’s first lady, Susanne Shore, spent the last month getting used to her new role -- first hosting a huge party for the whole state, then deciding the best way to spend her time at the family’s new second home in the Capital City and finally determining how to add first lady duties to her already busy life as mom to three kids.

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Nebraska's first lady, Susanne Shore

Lincoln Journal Star file photo

Reach the writer at 402-473-7214 or kmoore@journalstar.com. On Twitter @LJSkcmoore.

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* Don’t call her Susie or Sue or Susan. Her name is Susanne -- with no “z” -- and she prefers that.

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Nebraska first lady, Susanne Shore, watches the Iowa vs. Nebraska gymnastics meet with her two daughters, Margot Ricketts, 15, right, Eleanor Ricketts, 13, center, and her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, and son, Roscoe Ricketts, 15, left, who puts his hand on his father's head after getting a snack, Feb. 7 at the Devaney Sports Center. Shore said she and her family like to go to as many sporting events as possible.

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Susanne Shore dances with her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, during the first dance of the evening at the inaugural gala at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

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First lady Susanne Shore scans the galleries in the legislative chamber during the swearing-in ceremony for Gov. Pete Ricketts last month.

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Gov. Pete Ricketts walks in with first lady Susanne Shore during the  inaugural gala at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

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Susanne Shore, Nebraska's first lady, cheers during the Iowa vs. Nebraska gymnastics meet with her two daughters, Margot Ricketts (right) and Eleanor Ricketts, her husband, Gov. Pete Ricketts, and son, Roscoe Ricketts.

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