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Janet Delaney’s work experience started early. “As soon as I learned to write, I took orders for my dad on the phone, his clients knew me,” Delaney said recently. “Shirley would call and say, ‘Hey, Janet, can you tell your dad that I need a case of perms?’”

Bill Delaney, her father, was a beauty supply

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