Original sentence: At St.At the urging of family, friends, neighbours and local leaders, Snowe agreed to seek election to her late husband's House seat.Basil's Academy in Garrisson, New York, where she remained from the third grade to the ninth.Basil's the young Olympia first ran for (and won) elected office, as dorm president.Following her mother's death, Olympia was sent to St.George had emigrated to America from Sparta, Greece; Georgia was 1st generation Greek-American.However, personal tragedy struck Snowe again in 1973, when her husband was killed in an automobile accident.Olympia Jean Bouchles was born on February 21, 1947, in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of George and Georgia Goranites Bouchles.Olympia rose quickly in Maine Republican politics, winning a seat on the Board of Voter Registration, and working for Congressman (later U.Olympia's early life was riddled with tragedy; her mother died of breast cancer when Olympia was 8, her father of heart disease barely a year later.Orphaned, she was moved to Auburn, Maine, to be raised by her aunt and uncle, a barber and a textile mill worker respectively, along with their five other children; her brother John was raised separately, by other family members.Returning to Auburn, Olympia attended Edward Little High School,before winning a place at the University of Maine in Orono in 1969, where she earned a degree in political science.Shortly after graduation, Bouchles married her fiancee, the Republican state legislator Peter Snowe.Within a few years, illness would also claim her uncle's life also
Edited sentence: Following her graduation from the University of Maine at Orono in 1969, where she earned a degree in political science, Snowe rose quickly in Maine Republican politics, working for Congressman (later U.However, personal tragedy struck Snowe again in 1973, when her first husband, Republican state legislator Peter Snowe, was killed in an automobile accident.Olympia Jean Bouchles was born on February 21, 1947, in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of George and Georgia Goranites Bouchles, both of whom had emigrated to America from Sparta, Greece.When both her parents died before she was ten, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, a barber and a textile mill worker respectively, along with their five other children; her brother was raised separately, by other family members