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After finishing high school in her native Greece, Marina Gerolimatos spent several years studying cosmetology near Athens, then earning a scholarship to study the profession in Paris. While her siblings left for the United States, she finished her studies in Paris and went back to Greece, near her mother, to open what became a successful beauty salon.https://dev.news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2001/06/17-literacy-450-11.jpg