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Twenty-eight-year-old Chicago native Dan Fleming definitely chose the path less traveled when he signed up in July 2011 for a 27-month stint in the Fiji Islands as a part of the Peace Corps. The son of Mark Fleming and Jo-Marie Frigo, he was a recent graduate of the University of New Mexico at the time with a degree in construction engineering. Instead of diving right into the job market, Fleming chose to immerse himself in a completely different culture while reaching out to help his fellow human beings. “In the two years we’ve been out here, we’ve experienced a small …