Raising the Barre eve duncan This time it's personal

This time it's personal

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Raising the Barre eve duncan This time it's personalLike generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams along with her youthful self assurance and she stepped away from the barre. Fast forward four decades. Lauren suddenly, powerfully, itchingly restless at midlife embarks on a "Transcontinental