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Radio 4,6 mins

Greece: Love helped me out of the financial crisis

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Effie Mitroulia left Greece last year to come and live in the UK. Effie is from the city of Larissa in central Greece where 45 years ago her husband set up a business. When he died, 20 years ago now, Effie took it over and ran it. Until last year that is when events began to take an unexpected turn. The financial crisis caused her to close the business and she thought she'd lost everything. Then she met someone.

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