Astoria Characters: The Cousins Who Are Like Sisters

When they were growing up, Elena Toumaras-Kampouris and Stephanie Jerome-Narlis had one all-abiding dream: They wanted to – no, they were determined to –open a dance school. Stephanie, left, and Elena grew up together. The cousins – their mothers are sisters – are as close as sisters, and they look so much alike that it’s easy to think they are, indeed, siblings. They spent a lot of time together, much of it in Astoria, which they say still feels like home, so it was a simple…

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Astoria Characters: The Best-Selling Author

Sometimes all you need to change the course of your life is someone giving you a nudge in a different direction. Victoria’s new book will be out next month. For best-selling author Victoria Lee, that moment came when she was in graduate school, earning a doctorate in psychology to complement her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the same subject. Victoria, tall, dark and movie-star pretty, had been writing her entire life, usually penning a novel a year. But not once…

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