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Shawn Smith, UMC communications | 1:50 pm, Apr. 19, 2021 ×
University of Minnesota Crookston student Marlee Steffes. (2021 photo courtesy of University of Minnesota Crookston)
CROOKSTON, Minn. - When she was two years old, a daycare provider noticed Marlee Steffes’ right eye was turning in.
“I have known since I was little I wanted to be an optometrist,” Steffes stated. “My parents brought me in and I have something called strabismus, or the turning in of the eye.
The condition and the various eye appointments, and surgeries, would help guide the path Steffes is on today.