The Ugly Duckling

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Ellyn Davis

Cyan Banister
May 13, 2021
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A reader/follower of my Twitter feed found Ellyn. I wasn’t able to find her because, well, I spelled her name incorrectly all of these years. Becky is also Becca. This shows how faulty our memories can be, or at least mine can be. I’ve always been terrible with names, but maybe I should learn how to get better at remembering people.

So yeah, I called Ellyn and left her a voicemail. She returned my call and we spoke for about half an hour. She didn’t remember the missing $20 bills, but I reminded her until she did remember them. It was hard to gauge how she was processing my call, but I let her know that I am ok. I turned out ok and in huge part because of her. She’s 72 now and full of fire, just how I remembered her.

Now I need to make this situation whole. I apologized, I thanked her, but I need to reimburse her. I have some ideas of what I’m going to do, but if you have any as well, feel free to message me. What would wow her?

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Stephen
May 13, 2021Liked by Cyan Banister

What if you paid off her house? Maybe it is already paid off. Or Becca's? Some kind of gift of financial scale that stuns them. Obvs I throw this out with no knowledge of your magnitude of wealth, so, grain of salt. But, just from a pure story-arc beauty, considering the tangibles of their showing up for you all those years back: providing a home, and those dollars you swiped? Circling back on those tangibles seems pretty profound.

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Lori Valone
May 13, 2021

So very cool that you were able to connect and share with her who you were able to become because of her.

Given her desire to help others - and assuming she still has that same drive now at 72... perhaps enabling her to multiple how many people she can help in her chosen cause or causes would appeal to her. Or engaging through a cause or foundation you are part of that is aligned with her giving goals.

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