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Florine Mark: Entrepreneur is a quiet philanthropist.
What is generally unknown is that the entrepreneur has dedicated her life to helping those in need.

Mark strives to foster positive change in others” lives, developing this philosophy while sharing a home as a child with 12 relatives — her parents, grandparents, two sisters, six aunts and uncles — on Detroit”s west side.

On Sundays, she stood with her grandmother in front of a bakery collecting money for local charities and for her sister, who was diagnosed with polio and needed several surgeries. Eventually, the Michigan chapter of the March of Dimes stepped in and paid her medical expenses.

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