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When we returned horimaced as if in pain

"We need the factory so that we can afford the luxuries in life," she said "What we don't need is to acknowledge its existence And we certainly don't allow it to take up one iota of our tiht"

"But sos that are made in the factory are beautiful, aren't they?" I asked

"I suppose, in a pedestrian sort of way," she adh I didn't understand exactly what she meant, and I saw it displeased Sanford She didn't becootten us tickets to the Metropolitan Ballet's performance of The Four Temperaments

"Now," she cried, "now you will see your first real ballet and understand what it is I want you to do and become"

Celine had Sanford take us to buyroyal blue taffeta and Celine even had Sanford buyteardrop-shaped necklace

"Going to the ballet is a very special thing," she explained "Everyone wears their very best clothes You'll see"

She brought me to a salon where they styled my hair in a French twist and showed azed at rown-up I looked

"I want you to make a statement, to be noticed, to be someone everyone will look at and think, 'There's an up-and-co star, a little princess' "

I had to admit I was finally swept away in Celine's world I permitted myself to dream the same dreahts, and when I saw the theater and all those rich and elegant-looking people in the audience, I was filled with excitement, too By the tian I gazed at my new mother beside me in her wheelchair, saw the happiness and radiance in her eyes, and felt as if I was leaping and soaring alongside her During the first act, she reached through the darkness until she found my hand

When I turned to her she whispered, "Someday,

Janet, Sanford and I will be co here to see you "Someday," she whispered, lost in her dream And I dared to believe it could come true

Seven

Although I didn't hear the when I would randparents, Celine'sto the to the the week, Sanford and I usually ate breakfast without Celine since it took her er to rise and dress knew Sanford would telltrouble getting up the nerve Finally I decided I would settle intoup the subject of her parents again--then I would ask to meet them

As the days wore on, h I couldn't i flattered when he complimented me on my technique