"This process is very grueling, but being able to be at Fashion Week is every woman's dream, " she said.

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From her teenage ambition to her high-profile career today, Andrea Duffy is a woman who has following her dream.

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The dream she sells is that of an ambitious, driven, determined woman destined for success.

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"In a lot of ways, these businesses have become the new American Dream, " says Bernadette Grey, editor in chief of Working Woman magazine.

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At No. 6 Blenning Road, the elderly woman who had lived alone there since she was widowed seven months earlier was roused from a dream in which she was a child again.

NEWYORKER: Bravado