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She was a lonely little girl. Lucy was her name. Her father died when she was just three.

Her mother forced to make ends meet, left Lucy in the

care of others. No siblings, no playmates, just loneliness. The kind of loneliness that

carves a hollow in a child's heart. So Lucy did what only a child could do. She imagined a friend.

She created somebody to talk to.

Somebody who'd never leave.

Her first stage?

A backyard.

Her first audience?

An empty sky.

Her costume?

Whatever she was wearing that day.

Because she had been tied to a tree by her grandfather.

So she wouldn't wander while he worked nearby.

There she sat tied to a tree, putting on shows, telling stories, making up voices.

No lights, no cameras, just a four-year-old little girl with a storm of imagination and no one to share it with. As she got older, she carried

that spark into her dreams. Lucy wanted to be an actress, so she moved to New York City.

She got into drama school, only to be told that she had no talent. You'll never make it

in show business, they said. Rejection would have crushed

most, but not Lucy because she'd spent her whole childhood being rejected,

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