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An Uncompromising Woman

Noted: Sirleaf detoured abruptly from ambition when she fell in love with a man seven years older who had just returned home after going to college in the United States. He married her and took her along when he went to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a master?s degree in agriculture. She enrolled as an undergraduate at a local business college and, when they were strapped for cash, worked in a drugstore.