Sometimes you see someone you really admire, and it arouses a fervent desire to be like that. In Mary Catherine Bateson’s book Composing a Life, she describes a woman named Joan who was studying to be a gym teacher. She liked dancing but never thought of herself as a dancer because she was husky, while dancers were petite. Then a dance teacher came into her school, as husky and as tall as Joan, but light on her feet. “I watched her move around, and I thought, well, you’re no bigger than she is, maybe you’ve got what it takes,” Joan recalled. “So I began really taking my dancing seriously, and
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