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Pacing A Star3/25/2023 I knew one “famous” person in school, a star athlete later actress, Elara (f). When I say “I knew her” that is to say I knew her when I was very young, she grew up on my street, and we went to the same school together.
The last time I saw her in person (maybe once more at a track meet after) I found myself meeting up with her by chance while she was on a training run around the park. She was training for, well, I’m not certain, maybe just for the heck or it or to keep fit? She was definitely keeping “fit” if you know what I mean. I jogged alongside her and kept pace with her around the course. We barely spoke and after her run she left. I was a lot faster runner, not record-breaking fast like her, but I could hold my own but I just didn’t like sports and didn’t want to become an athlete. I have another story to tell about in that, but I’ll save it for another time. As a young girl, just three months older than me, her and her sister were a bit snobbish. I remember one time they told me that I couldn’t play with them, on the public sidewalk near their house, and if I did a snake would come down from the tree in front of their house and bite me. They moved a year or two later, I think over to the west side, and I didn’t see Elara again until grade 10 or 11 when I was helping out on track and field day. She went on to University to an education in a sports medicine field and then acting. She became a low-budget TV/film actress and made appearances on more famous series like CSI. She married her director/photographer divorcing him 16 years later, then married a well known country music singer. Every year I see some post about how Elara was drooled over by students and teachers in my hometown like she's become some kind of superstar hero. Sure, she made something of her life and she starred on TV/film (quite frankly her two series she appeared in were more about flashing her physical attributes than intelligence, and she played a villain type character in CSI) but she's certainly no saint. I guess when you're a small town with no surviving elementary or secondary school, no industry, and barely existing commercial district the only thing you have left is sensationalism and grabbing onto whatever star passes by. I know there's another kid who became a little less famous (singer) and somehow is associated with my school. She attended the same time as me allegedly, though I never remember seeing her, knowing her name, or anything about her. It's interesting how, even though she got a lot of media in her particular genre, the town didn't elevate her to sainthood like they did Elara. Strange. It always rubbed me the wrong way when I read that Elara was "born in" our hometown though. She wasn't. Her family moved there when she was very young. In fact, and I don't have proof not that it matters, but I think I was the ONLY kid in my class/year to actually be "born in" our town, even my sister was born at the hospital in a nearby town. The town hospital only re-started having a maternity service for a few years and I was born during it, it reverted back to the other town again in the year or two after I was born.
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