GREAT READS → OUT OF STEP Issue 806 · April 5, 2020

Out of Step: Chapter 30

Ma makes sense, she really does, but I just feel so heavy and gross, and I miss ballet so much, I completely lose myself

Out of Step: Chapter 30

 

I sink onto my bed in horror. Have I gained weight? What, when?

Getting up slowly, I head to the full-size mirror on the wall.

I look the same, don’t I? But my dress won’t fit. I try on another, a tapered suede burgundy. It won’t close.

How can this be happening? On top of everything else?

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