Ivy Le Gore is no spring chicken. But someone half her age may not have the gift of knowing her own mind so well.When she joined the Peace Corps in 1998, Le Gore knew exactly where she wanted to go: Latvia. And when she arrived in Valmiera in June of that year to teach at the Valmiera Music School, she knew she had made the right choice."I couldn't have desired a better place," she said. "Everywhere I go I am treated well."In the beginning, of course, people stared at her because she's different, dark-skinned, but Ivy's disarming natural friendliness and her knowledge of the Latvian languag...
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