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Show SWAN LAKE Mr. Flugman told his students that every girl ought to have a PMA picture to carry with her in her mind during practice, and Kim's PMA picture was the title page of the Swan Lake program- with one difference. She always substituted her name, KIMBERLY LONG, in place of Margot Fonteyn. It was that vision, her name in big black letters on a program with picture of her in a fancy costume on the inside, that had kept her slaving on barre for the last five years. What she hoped since she had started lessons at nine years old, was to someday dance for a real ballet company, to stare out beyond glaring stage stage lights into a dark auditorium filled with an admiring audience. But Woogie didn't appear to share that same vision. His sorrowful expression remained unchanged, and even for Kim the lights and fancy costumes were beginning to pale when she thought of having to leave home and go to girl's boarding school to make it all possible. After stuffing the suitcase beyond it's normal capacity, she lowered the lid and sat on it, bouncing up |
