A little part of me always wanted to be a ballerina. I remember going to see the Nutcracker as a little girl and thinking that the ballerinas looked like they could fly and I began to dream of being one of those ballerinas. I took one ballet class when I was five. It didn’t go so well and my mom tried to help me by showing me how to properly. She was eight months pregnant and sprained her ankle. And that’s basically wear my dream ended. Now I get to take photos of beautiful ballerinas.

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