Growing up as the youngest of three daughters in Brooklyn in a modern Orthodox Jewish household, Lori Levi said she had a single vision of her future.

“I just didn’t think about anything other than getting married and having a family,” Levi said.

That single vision did become her reality, but Levi, now 64 and living in Sea Cliff, feels as if she has lived multiple lifetimes.

She left the religious community of her childhood after coming out as a gay woman. But that decision would set her on a much different path. Levi would go on to become an EMT, a police officer, a chef and a mother. She also found her way back to her religion, finding spiritual solace as a personal trainer at the Sid Jacobson JCC in East Hills.

“I realized that there was a possibility for me to become who I really a

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