History may have been very different for you, if you were named Melody.
In the many universes (theory), where you were named Melody, you are, instead of an engineer, an opera singer –probably a baritone in most universes, but a tenor in some of the others. In the universes where you cannot sing, then you may be a bouncer for the MMA, ejecting aggressive troublemakers who breach ringside security perimeters. This, adapted as a theory from the Shel Silverstine song, "A Boy Named Sue," made famous by Johnny Cash.
The song and this theory aside, the real boy named Sue -- Sue Hicks, whose name inspired the song, was a famed jurist; most notably as a prosecutor in the Scope’s Monkey Trial. So in a universe not too far removed from this one, there is the Honorable Melody Rom who presides over murder cases and solves physics problems in his spare time.
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