As a mother of three, a wife, a science teacher, an administrator, a college professor, a tennis coach, a sponsor of Future Educators of America and Science National Honor Society and Girl Scout leader, Florida delegate Dr. Marilyn Zaragoza is an achiever, successfully balancing many different hats.

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There is a place for the girlie-girl and tomboy princess in our society, with lots of varieties in between.

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"Pinki was a depressed, sad, lonely, shy, young little girl, growing up on the periphery of the society in a little village, " said Satish Kalra, director of Smile Train's South Asian region, after meeting with Pinki.

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Snobs on its face would seem to be a facile story about a striving, dopey girl who marries for status in a somewhat backwards British society where status of the family tree kind still matters a great deal.

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"Wadjda, " which earlier premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will be released this fall by Sony Pictures Classics, is about an independent-minded 10-year-old girl (Waad Mohammed) who chafes at the deeply conservative Muslim society she and her mother (Reem Abdullah) struggle through.

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