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She also was never one to expose any challenges she faced growing up around as fodder for gaining celebrity, citing simply, “I had challenges, but who doesn’t.” She always credited coming up in a place like Cape Breton responsible for instilling her with an ingrained sense of the importance of community. Community where traditionally, stories were told and passed along through music, a tool she found fairly easy to weld in terms of her own, gifted voice, though an almost crippling sense of shyness stunted her at first.
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