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Byline: Kara Rowland, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When Fran Lessans married at 16, she was told it wouldn't work.
She and her husband, Martin, have been together for 42 years.
Marrying young wasn't the only time Mrs. Lessans proved skeptics wrong: When she first courted potential investors about franchising her three-year-old Baltimore travel medicine company, she wasn't taken seriously.
"I couldn't get anyone to listen," she recalled.
Now, nearly 10 years later, Passport Health has 115 locations across the country - with more than a dozen in the Washington area - and is the largest private purchaser of vaccines in the U.S.
"This business has far exceeded my original goals," said Mrs. Lessans, who last month was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" for the Maryland health care category by Ernst & Young. The award recognizes entrepreneurs for exceptional innovation, financial performance and commitment to their businesses and communities.
A law student who fell ill during a trip to Ghana gave Mrs. Lessans, a registered nurse and then a health...
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