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Petry had a strong family foundation with well-traveled uncles, who had many stories to tell her when coming home ; her father, who overcame racial obstacles, opened a pharmacy in the small town ; and her mother and aunts set a strong example: Petry, interviewed by the Washington Post in 1992, says about her tough female family members that “ it never occurred to them that there were things they couldn ’ t do because they were women .”