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I'm a feminist, but today, for the first time, I went into a dance studio in a socially

distance way from my dancing instructor, Melissa Bravo. So for those who don't know, my lockdown

project was dance lessons, because I wanted to make meaning of the time, and I also wanted to

make it go faster, and I thought, you know, a dirty dancing montage makes the time go really fast.

Just go, oh, wow, they've done a bit of this, and a bit of this, and a bit of this, and then

three months has passed. So I thought I would learn to dance for all sorts of reasons.

And so I hired a dancer instructor called Melissa Bravo, who lives very close to me.

We've been on Zoom together for four months now, dancing every single day.

And today, for the first time, we went into a studio, as was legally allowed, and stood far

from each other. And we were just staring at each other, because we've seen more of each other

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