She could've been...

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Have you ever known someone who had a talent for something and got great joy out of doing it. However... I have spoken in the past of my friend, Elaine, who died too soon of ovarian cancer in 1998. Elaine was a talented story teller. She could've probably been a good, maybe not great, but good actress, except... Elaine was homely. Not quite bad enough to be full scale ugly, but certainly not pretty. Because of a fouled up surgery on her ear as a teen or young adult, she had a bit of paralysis on her face. I don't even know if she was really aware of it, but it did become apparent pretty quickly. So, she became a children's librarian. Her story times, her puppet shows were very popular. Because she liked children, some of the children who used to come to story time used to later come to the library and help her after school. She also entered costume contests, generally with another friend, and they sang filk songs. Songs that Elaine generally wrote the lyrics to. Now, when I was young, and skinny, I was attractive, maybe not a great beauty, but if she had my looks, she might've tried to go in to some kind of acting, even if just local theater. I had wanted to be a librarian at one point, but as much as I love books, I don't really people. So, do you know someone like Elaine, who had the passion for and the talent for something but something entirely out of their control kept them from any chance of making a career out of it?