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Carmen Harlan has been on duty for 38 years.

The WDIV-TV Local 4 senior anchor has been as much a part of Detroit history as Sanders Hot Fudge and Faygo soda.

She has outlasted football coaches, baseball managers, several companies and most local fads.

A proud, defiant, lifelong Detroiter, she has been the lens through which many Detroiters have seen nearly every tragedy, victory, scandal and joy.

She has been our window to city, national and world history: the Challenger shuttle tragedy, the invasion of Iraq, the death of Princess Diana, the near demise of the auto industry and 9/11. She covered Pope John Paul II's visit to Michigan in 1987 and South African President Nelson Mandela's visit in 1990.

She covered both of President Barack Obama’s inaugurations.

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No matter the traumas that befell the city, from population loss to the deaths of children to the burglary of