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VELIOTIS: Lucky Lefteri, a Rags to Riches story
Carol Veliotis
The Greek man’s name Eleftherios (EH-Lef-THAIR-ee-ose) means “Free” or ‘Liberated”, a sense of nobility with a hopeful outlook on life. Nothing could have been further from the truth in this Lefteri’s( Lef-TERR-ee) childhood. When I lived on that tiny 15 square mile Greek island, everyone knew him, as he was deemed the village idiot.