The talent scout had only seen Carrie at the airport for a moment. But it was enough. He knew talent when he saw it. He approached Carrie’s mom and made his pitch. Carrie could be in a Huggies diaper commercial.

 

Carrie’s mother declined. Carrie was destined for greater things.

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The stage, not the screen, was where Carrie’s acting prowess would be put to use. Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, The Music Man. The list of musicals in which she performed as a child is extensive. 

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Eventually Carrie grew up and needed a job. She traded out the spotlights of the theater for the fluorescent lights of the classroom. But her acting career is far from over. Instead of performing for audiences of excited fans, her performances are now for hormonal pre-teens as she tries to teach them language arts. The educational world is her stage. 

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And one particular performance stands above the rest.

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It was Valentine’s Day. An innocent sixth grader handed her a wrapped gift. But inside was not the G-rated, candy-filled mug the girl’s mother had picked out for Carrie. No, this was one of the “Galentines Day” gifts her mother had bought for her gals. For her besties. For them, the gifts had been a bit more risqué. And it was one of those gifts the girl had mistakenly grabbed as she left for school that morning. 

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But Carrie did not know any of this as she started to open the package. And as she unwrapped the gift, her eyes almost widened. Almost. But Carrie was unflappable. She was cast as the cool, collected teacher, and this little surprise was not going to make her break character. She asked the little girl if she knew what it was. No, the little girl did not. Her mom had picked it out.

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Carrie inconspicuously slipped it back into the box and thanked her for the nice gift, deftly avoiding the questions that would inevitably come. It just did not seem like the appropriate place to explain that, apparently, some adults also shop at toy stores.

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As the sweet sixth grader left the room, innocence intact, Carrie imagined the curtain dropping, and mentally took a bow. 

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Pictured is Carrie, of Ogden, Utah, wearing the Tears of Gold design. 
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