Choral director Arianne Abela spent her childhood sitting on her hands mdash to hide them Born with fingers missing or fused together on both hands she also had no left leg and was missing toes on her right foot A music lover and lyric soprano she rsquo d planned to major in government at Smith College But one day her choir teacher asked her to conduct mdash which made her hands quite visible From that moment she found her career going on to conduct church choirs and serving now as Director of Choirs at another university ldquo My teachers saw
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