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"When I came here, my English was absolutely zero," said Ella Samsonova, her sentence structure and cadence decorated with a Ukrainian accent. "It was, 'How do you do?' and 'My name is Ella.' Step, by step I started picking up American."
Ten years later Samsonova has added English--the American version--to her list of spoken languages. "My mother was Polish and my father Russian," she said, accounting for two other languages she can speak in addition to her native Ukrainian.
The Russian came in handy after she immigrated to the United States in 1995 with her 12-year-old son, Zima, landing in Daytona Beach. "I didn't have a big plan," she said of her decision to go to Florida, of which she knew little--"maybe Disneyland." Samsonova quickly hooked up with Russian-Jewish emigres in Daytona Beach "who owned a couple hotels and Russian restaurants," then "found a Russian lady who owns a salon in Florida."
She began working at the beauty salon, doing there what she had studied for and done in the Ukraine--facials, skin care and massages. After she had earned a bachelor's degree in...
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