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  | | Angela Merkel | |
  | | Who says a woman cannot be a leader? | |
  | | Angela Merkel was the first woman ever to lead Germany as a chancellor. | |
  | | The daughter of a Lutheran pastor and a teacher, Angela grew up in a rural area. | |
  | | You do not have to be rich or to live in a big city to succeed in your career. | |
  | | Do you have a nickname? Angela’s nickname was "Kasi" from her last name, Kasner. | |
  | | She was a good student. | |
  | | She was very good in languages. | |
  | | She said she would have loved to become a teacher like her mother. | |
  | | Instead, she chose to study the sciences. | |
  | | Her life was not easy. | |
  | | When she was a student, Angela worked as a barmaid in a discotheque. | |
  | | A year before earning her degree she married a fellow student, Ulrich Merkel. | |
  | | They moved to an apartment with neither toilet nor hot water. Can you even imagine? | |
  | | However, she still got her doctorate in quantum chemistry at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. | |