Thamyongkit lives with her elderly parents in a narrow, three-storey house in blaring central Bangkok. The neighbourhood is a sea of concrete, with wall-to-wall houses. When she was young, her parents ran an automobile-parts shop and a book store. They were ambitious for their daughter, and wanted her to become a doctor. "I am lucky in the sense that my parents have always supported me," says Thamyongkit - even when she chose to study physical sciences instead of medicine at Chulalongkorn University.
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