I told him I was a dancer. He thought I danced in clubs or was a stripper. That struck me as really funny. No, I said, I wish I could dance like that, but modern dance is my thing. Actually, I’d never even imagined myself dancing in a club, doing one of those pathetic little numbers and living with shady people, in unsavory places, but when Arturo got the wrong idea and said that, for the first time in my life I thought about it and the (imaginary) vistas of the life of a professional dancer seemed attractive to me, even painfully attractive, although then I stopped thinking about it because
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