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My father’s business, built on hustle, teaches valuable lessons

Family-run company can be more about what you learn from one another as the bottom line. In the Llovio family, the lessons are about grit, resilience and, notably, love.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 4:30 a.m. April 7, 2022
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Silvio on his 75th birthday in 2015 with his sons, Jonathan, Albert and Louis in Carmel, California.
Silvio on his 75th birthday in 2015 with his sons, Jonathan, Albert and Louis in Carmel, California.
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When Silvio first arrived in Florida from Cuba in 1960, he had few choices.

About 19, he’d lived a pretty good life on the island. But it was different in the U.S. Here he suddenly found himself in charge of two aged aunts, his grandfather and two teenage brothers. His father was back in Cuba, a political prisoner.

 


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