Thanks for your story, Becca. When I was 10, I would have given anything to have been in a movie. I was enrolled in a children’s theater workshop at a local college from age 10 to 15 and always got leading roles. I lived just 90 miles north of NYC and begged my mother to take me to Broadway auditions and open calls for movies. She wouldn’t do it. My parents business made it next to impossible, but I don’t think she would have done it even if she could. She knew about the dangers to which I’d be exposed. She was in her 50s at the time and had been around the block a few times. After reading your story, I’m glad she never supported my dream of being a professional child actor. I still did a little professional acting after college and community theater throughout the years. I was even almost in the film Milk but the footage I was in was cut from the picture. Someday, I may still realize my dream of being in movies. I’m 61 now. I think I can handle it!