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listen to the organist the culturally omnivorous

intellectually ravenous

podcast from the editors of the believer magazine

part of poetry is learning how to speak.

Chilly Billy, Chilly Billy.

I'm also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.

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From the Independent Producer Project and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries.

What happens when a body finally gives way

under the punishing demands and pressures of professional ballet?

Well, in a way it begins a kind of grieving process where you're forced to give up on something that defines your entire identity.

Dancing itself becomes a painful reminder of what you can no longer do.

It's a story produced by Eleanor McDowell of

falling tree productions and from KCRW.com it's unfictional. A dancer dies twice.

One, two, five, six, seven, eight.

I didn't dance with a mirror as a little kid. I was I would improvise in the living room all the time I had no mirror just had the music

So don't remember really getting into the mirror until I was nine.

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