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Call me sentimental but as I mused about Valentine’s Day and true sacrificial love, I pulled out one of my favorite NestLearning Animated Hero Classics DVDs is about one such heroic woman, Marie Curie. She had a devoted husband who loved her and did his best to give her the honor that she deserved, even when it meant risking his standing in the educational, business and intellectual community. 

As I watched the film, I couldn’t help but think how blessed my daughters are to have been born in a different time than she.  Marie was Polish in Russian-occupied Poland in the late 1800s.  She overcame poverty and significant ethnic and gender discrimination to become one of the most influential people of all time.  She is credited with discovering radium and polonium (which she named after her homeland.) Marie Curie was one accomplished lady. 

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