155:). In 1945, the town she lived in was occupied by Nazi Germany and was bombed during the Soviet invasion. She and her family fled to Germany, where they were forced into German refugee camps from the time she was three years old to the time she was eight years old. In 1950, she and her family immigrated to the United States, settling near
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in 1960, originally majoring in mathematics. After learning she needed an art class to meet
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