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Let There Be Light: Larchmont Entrepreneur's Online Business Burns Bright Let There Be Light: Larchmont Entrepreneur's Online Business Burns Bright
Let There Be Light: Larchmont Entrepreneur's Online Business Burns Bright Carine Le Garrec wants to light up your life. The Larchmont resident, who's also a flight attendant for a major airline, is the founder of The Fairy Lights Factory, vibrant mix-and-match lights that hang on strings and can go anywhere. Le Garrec first saw them years ago on a layover in Thailand in 1998. She discovered them a second time in a small shop in Paris in 2010 while decorating a pied-à-terre. That's when she bought them and fell in love. "They're so colorful and fun," she said.  "And add a lot of warmth and happiness to a space." Years later, she wanted to bu…

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