SEMINOLE, Fla. – On a quiet afternoon at her nail salon in Seminole, Liudmyla Nikohosian gently held a client’s hand while applying a layer of gel to make her nails strong and shiny.
A flower arrangement sat in the corner. A flat-screen TV streamed videos of European cities as soft music played in the background. When clients asked for water or an espresso, Nikohosian brought it with a Ferrero Rocher chocolate wrapped in gold foil.
It’s a calm and carefully designed space, the center of the new life she’s built in Florida and a world away from the one she left in Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine…