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Jamais Anne-Marie n'aurait pu deviner qu'en jouant parmi les décombres des bâtiments bombardés après la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le sud de la France, elle jetait les bases d'une vie réussie en tant que maître d'arts martiaux et entrepreneur. Suivez le parcours d'Anne-Marie, de jeune enfant à mariée américaine, puis propriétaire d'une école de Taekwon-do, et gagnez en sagesse grâce aux leçons qu'elle a apprises en cours de route.
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The year was 1941. Toulon, France was being bombarded. In this war-torn setting, Anne-Marie survived in the womb of her mother. Her father, far away in northern France, was imprisoned in a concentration camp building bunkers for the Germans. Anne-Marie grew up in the post-war rubble of Toulon. She learned to jump & climb with the neighborhood boys, becoming a tomboy, and she learned the rest of the stuff in a make-shift school for girls. When she was 7 years old, she was befriended by a girl, a loner like herself. This new friend shared her passion for martial arts with Anne-Marie. Her friend had learned Viet Va Do (a form of TaeKwon-Do) and Judo while living in French Indochina with her family, and she needed someone to practice her skills on. Anne-Marie was repeated thrown to the dirt ground or onto a pile of dead leaves if she was lucky. She was elated to participate, but Anne-Marie wanted more. It was this pivotal experience that set her on a personal path of empowerment.
