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Show gifted or talented, but her mother had put on the school's application form that she was attending the Ballet Academy in San Francisco on a scholarship, so Kim guessed that was why she' was enrolled in CITG. Kim liked the class mostly because of the teacher, Mrs. Parker. She looked about forty with blond hair and beautiful clear skin and a soft, melodious voice. On the wall in back of her desk, Mrs. Parker had a poem framed in wood by Emily Dickinson. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. The purpose of the class, Mrs. Parker announced the first day was to allow the naturally bright and talented girls an opportunity to pursue their special interests outside of a planned cirriculum. 58 |