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Long Island moms make a living removing lice

Michelle Villella, right, a co-owner of Fairy LiceMothers

Photo credit: Newsday / Ken Sawchuk | Michelle Villella, right, a co-owner of Fairy LiceMothers carefully performs a recheck for head lice on Jake Ourvan, 9, of Manhattan. Jake and his brother Kevin both were here for a follow-up visit after the Fairy Lice Mothers successfully removed lice. (October 2009)

It was over dinner with their husbands - and after more than a few glasses of wine -- that three Oceanside mothers hatched their plan for a new business.

"It's amazing what a glass of Pinot Grigio can get you to do," Chris Bonanno, 41, said, remembering that night nearly two years ago.

"Or cabernet," said business partner Michelle Villella, 41.

So when Carol Gilbert, 40, suggested...

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