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Nadine Cross is a fictional character in The Stand, a book written by Stephen King.

Early years
When Nadine was six years old, her parents and her brother died in her car accident and she went to live with her aunt and uncle.

When she was sixteen, strands of white started to show up in Nadine's hair, ultimately giving her hair streaks of white in it.

In college, she and her friends used a planchette. When Nadine and friend started using it, there hands became stuck to the planchette as it spelled out
 * NADINE, NADINE, NADINE, HOW I LOVE NADINE TO BE MY TO LOVE MY NADINE TO BE MY QUEEN IF YOU IF YOU IF YOU ARE PURE FOR ME IF YOU ARE CLEAN FOR ME IF YOU ARE IF YOU ARE DEAD FOR ME DEAD YOU ARE YOU ARE DEAD WITH THE REST OF THEM YOU ARE IN THE DEADBOOK WITH THE REST OF THEM NADINE IS DEAD WITH THEM NADINE IS ROTTEN WITH THEM UNLESS UNLESS THE WORLD THE WORLD SOON THE WORLD IS DEAD AND WE WE WE NADINE NADINE I I I WE WE WE ARE WE ARE WE WE ARE IN THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD NADINE

After this, all the other girls became scared of her and avoided her.

When Nadine grew up, she became a teacher, teaching children in third and second grade.

The plague
When Nadine is thirty-seven, a biological weapon known as "Project Blue", an advanced form of influenza, is accidentally released from a government base. The virus spread out to the public where it becomes known as Captain Trips. Trips, with a mortality rate of 100%, infects 99.4% of the human population. Nadine was one of the few survivors. Soon after the plague, she began having dreams (or nightmares) of the man known as Randall Flagg. Flagg was the one who had contacted her through the planchette board (Though Nadine didn't know much of this at the time, Flagg wanted her for her purity, planning on using her for a heir. Flagg was somehow responsible for releasing the virus, and had taken over Las Vegas, Nevada, attracting some of the survivors with its rare technology).

Looking for survivors, Nadine encountered a young boy who had been bitten by a wild animal and had become delirious. Nadine was able to help him with the infection, but his mind seemed to have regressed and he acted like a savage. Not knowing what his name was, Nadine called him Joe.

Nadine took Joe with her and after a while she ran into Larry Underwood, a down-on-his-luck musician. The two fell in love, though a conflicted Nadine pushed away his sexual advances, wanting to save herself for Flagg. Larry eventually became disinterested in her, and when they met up with a large group of people in Nebraska he left her for another woman named Lucy Swann.

In Nebraska, the group meets Mother Abigail, a 108 year-old women who the others had dreams of that drew them to her. Though Abigail was kind to the others, she was cold to Nadine, perhaps sensing her connection to Flagg. She also restored Joe, who remembered that his name was Leo Rockway. After this, the boy seemed to grow apart from her, just like Larry had.

The group ultimately set up a democratic society in the Colorado city of Boulder, creating a group called the Free Zone Committee. At this point most of the human race is divided up in Boulder and Las Vegas, where Flagg is their dictator and leader.

Fall from grace
Not knowing what to do, but knowing that Flagg wanted her pure, Nadine begged Larry to come back to her, saying that he was her last chance and he could make her safe, but he pushed her away, believing that staying with Lucy could give him more political power in the Free Zone Committee.

Nadine leaves and returns to her home, where she uses a planchette to contact Flagg and is told to seduce a man named Harold Lauder into creating a bomb that would blow up the committee. Harold was a bitter man, in love with a girl named Frannie and and angry with the man named Stu who she fell in love with.

Nadine seduces Harold and two start a sexual relationship (though Nadine must never engage in vaginal intercourse with him). Nadine tells him about Flagg, and gets him to believe her by telling him stuff about himself that only he knew. She convinces him to build a bomb that will blow up the committee, and he agrees, already angry with the group.

As he builds the bomb, Nadine becomes conflicted