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My journey into professional storytelling began in 1996. I was volunteering at my local library doing Saturday story times. The children's librarian there told me "You have a natural-born talent, Dianne. You should do this professionally." It never occurred to me that storytelling could be a career. She planted the seed and it continued to grow. When I told my husband that I wanted to be a "profe…