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Evangelina Rodríguez Led an Extraordinary Life as the Dominican Republic’s First Female Doctor


Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911

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