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Nancy Sumner became notorious for her many romantic liaisons and suitors. However, after rejecting the suit of the reigning king
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chiefs who reared
Kamehameha during his infancy. Her younger half-sister was
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Topolinski, John Renken Kahaʻi (1981). "Nancy Sumner, Hawaiian
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191:Biography
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