Early Career and Marriage
After graduation, she worked as a sportscaster for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage, and as a sports reporter for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, fulfilling an early ambition.
On August 29, 1988, she eloped at age 24 with her high school sweetheart, Todd Palin.
Following the birth of their first child, in April 1989, she helped in her husband's commercial fishing business.
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