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Dance Cocky

A Point of View

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Dance, Not Dance, Is a Freak?

Not dancing was a serious drawback when it came to finding a girl friend. The best places in manchester to meet girls were the ritz ball room and the twisted wheel discatek. You could hardly go up to a girl ask her for a dance, and when she said, ok, tell her you weren't dancing. A political thought began to dawn on me, it's authoritarian to determine what is or isn't freakish. Maybe it is freakish to feel so unhappy in one's body that one doesn't want to be seen throwing it about to music one doesn't like. But it was my body. How could i have visited this cruelty on another being? And not even

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