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A SELF-MADE POLYMATH, big on scanning reams of information, Marcia Kilgore is by any standards a role model for her sons Louis, 13, and Raphael, 10. Still, the beauty executive, 48, doesn’t want her children to live with the sense of “lost opportunity” that she does. “I watched so much TV when I was young that I never learned French,” said Ms. Kilgore, who woke up the once-sleepy day-spa business with Bliss, the New York City beauty emporium she founded in 1996 and sold to LVMH in 1999 for an estimated $30 million. Her message?…