ost young girls do not leave home to find fame and wealth in a few years, especially young girls raised in relative poverty. Clearly, Evita possessed remarkable drive and determination, the same qualities she showed when her ambition led her to meet and win the heart of then-Colonel Peron, with whom she would later rule over Argentina. Certainly, her powerful personality in large part accounts for the claim that she was "his most important follower and the person who more than anyone else and almost as much as he did, gave an identity to the movement which bore his name" (Fraser and Navarro 33). She and Juan would dazzle the country in part because of the myths of their leadership, in part because she was perceived as being (along with Juan) the spiritual and practical answer to the needs of the people, and in part because she played the role to the hilt, like the actress she wanted to be as young girl. She played that role spectacul
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