Combining multiple libraries with out duplicates

Greetings
I have 3 libraries -
one on my laptop
one on my 1tb external
one on my wife's machine -
I just put a 500GB drive in my laptop and would like to combine all three of these
WITHOUT duplicating the files that exist in more than one location -
is there any way to do this?
thanks
jamie

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