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"Name every bone in , thinking: if she broke her bones and couldn't dance again, then she'd have to stay home with me all the time

"Honestly, Chris, sometimes you act like I'm your slave! Look at me I'm thirty-seven years old, and soon I'll be too old to dance at all Let me feel useful, as you feel useful I have to dance--just one more time"

"No," he repeated, but less firive in it won't be the last tiain" 186

"Chris, I' to plead There is not a student I have capable of playing the role--and I alance, as if she worried ht I was happy, very happyfor she was going to fall! Deep inside of me I knew I could ive her the evil eye; then she'd be round like a dog or an Indian, and she'd be surprised at all that could

be found out fro

"I a injury, Catherine," said that hateful husband "All your life you have given your joints a great deal of stress and disregarded the pain It's tiood health of your fa"

I scowled at Dad, sorry he'd forgotten so and had to come back and hear too otten his wallet again, and he was a doctor as supposed to have a good ave him his wallet, which had been left beside his breakfast plate, and so out to the garage, start your car and then remember you don't have your wallet"

His sives s you don't tell me" He stuffed the wallet in his hip pocket

"Chris, I don't like to go against your wishes, but I can't allow a second-rate perfor chance to show off in his solo"

"For once in your life, Catherine, listen to what I say That knee has been x-rayed, you know the cartilage is broken, and you still coe for years Chronic pain is one thing--acute pain another Is that what you want?"

"Oh, you doctors!" she scoffed "All of you have such dreary notions of how frail the human body is My knee hurts, so what? All my dancers complain of aches and pains When I was in South Carolina, the dancers complained, in New York they co, doctor, absolutely nothing I can't put up with"

"Cathy!"

"My knee has not hurt seriously in ripe about pain? No, you haven't!"

With that, Dad strode froe

In a flash she was running after hi to hearshe'd win Then I'd have her for my very own