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‘Dream Come True’: Meet Kimberly La Du, Co-Owner of Manfredi Jewels, Now Open on Elm

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Kimberly La Du can trace her passion and dedication to this single and singular professional field to a piece of advice her dad gave her while growing up back in Franklin Lakes, N.J., where she attended Indian Hills High School. She would go on to earn a double bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Entrepreneurial Studies at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. with her father’s words in mind. “He said, ‘That [degree] is going to take you anywhere. Once you find your niche, if you have that base education, you can do anything with it,’ ” La Du, a Darien mother of three, recalled on a recent morning from her office at 72 Elm St.