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Rosie Lee, 49
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Treasure Coast Food Bank

 

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America is a country of entrepreneurs. This can-do spirit has created amazing new products and inventions, not to mention great wealth. For Lee, having her own real estate business was not enough. She redirected her experience in marketing toward the business of volunteering.

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