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Show scholarship to the Ballet Academy in San Francisco. But to be right honest with you, I can't see how they're going to teach you a whole lot more down there than Mr. Flugman has here. We were real lucky he just happened to retire here in town on his wife's place." Kim didn't want to give up her dream, but neither did she want to leave home. "Well, if that's the way you feel," she said, "maybe I hadn't ought to go at all." She was overstating her feelings, she knew. But she just wanted some reassurance that things work out all right in California. "And give up a thousand dollar scholarship? Do you know how long it took the Women's Clubs in the State to earn that money? That Performing Arts Contest in Boise is the most important thing they do all year. And I'm kind of looking forward to you going down and showing all those people at the Ballet Academy that we got class in Idaho too." "But Mom, it's going to cost money to board at Miss Putnam's." "Just as long as Mr. Passey keeps making payments, we can handle it." "But you could quit teaching at the high school with all that money." "I love teaching at the high school. What would I do if I quit?" "You could go on a trip, or take more classes up to 8 |