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[Star Wars]Why Shmi Skywalker?

I've been a huge Star Wars fan for years and years.  I love following all of the storylines in the OT the NT and the EU.  I love the various Conspiracy Theories surrounding Anakin and Plagueis and the did he/didn't he debates.  Something that none of the debates touch on is this:  Why Shmi Skywalker?  What was it about her that made her the ideal mother of the (real or fake) Chosen One?  Could it have been something in her past?  Was she related somehow to the Sith?  To the Jedi?  We know nothing at all about her life or Anakins before the time they were sold to Gardulla the Hutt.
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It's entirely possible, probable even, that the reason for 'why her' boiled down to her being in the right place at the right time.

If the 'Chosen One' needed to be born on a particular type of planet, have a particular arc to their life, particular factors to occur in childhood, etc then their parent would need to be a woman in a position to provide those factors. There may be nothing special at all about Shmi. The very fact that there is next to no record of her life before or after Anakin was a part of it tends to support the idea that she was just a convenient womb.