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While the image of Mona Lisa with an omelette on her head might look strange, today we know that many master painters used eggs as a binding medium for pigments in their oil paintings. Just because we do not see the egg, doesn’t mean it is not there. (Getty images)

Growing up in Turkey as a single child raised by a single working mother, and then later o…

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