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From a Small Town to the Top of the World: What Shaped Melania Trump

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On January 20, former model Melania Trump becomes the first foreign-born woman to become first lady of the United States in almost 200 years. Before this year, most Americans knew little of Melania Trump or her country of origin, the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. VOA Europe Correspondent Luis Ramirez takes us there for a glimpse of her origins and the factors that shaped the woman who will soon be America’s first lady.