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There's a dance in ballroom.

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It's a Latin dance
called the bolero.

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Unlike your cha-chas
and sambas, it's

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a very slow and sensuous dance.

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It's not Ravel, by any means.

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And it's sort of like a
rumba, but slowed down a lot.

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So like anything you try to
do in slow motion, it hurts.

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That's the bad part of it too.

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"Bolero."

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"Not the ratcheting crescendo
of Ravel's bright winds,

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but an older, crueler passion.

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A woman with hips who
knows when to move them,

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who holds nothing back but
the hurt she takes with her

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as she dips, grinds, then rises
sweetly into his arms again.

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Not delicate.

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Not tame.

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Bessie Smith in a
dream of younger--

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can't you see-- slimmer days.

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Restrained in a way
a debutante is not,

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the way a bride pretends
she understands.

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How everything hurts!

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Each upsurge onto
a throbbing toe,

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the prolonged descent
to earth, to him.

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What love and
heartache done to me.

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Her body ferocious, a
grim ululation of flesh.

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She adores him.

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And he savors that adoration,
this man in love with looking.

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She feels his look, his
sigh, and she moves,

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moved with him to the
music in the space allotted

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them, spot lit across
the hardwood floor."

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