Diary of a telephile

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The Hour’s Lix Storm + Hair Porn for ballroompink

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its-mattys-thesis:

Sheila Bryant
(Sara Rosemary Bryant)

Colorado Springs, Colorado
b. August 8, 1946

Sheila:

Well, first, she took me to see all the ballets. And then, she gave me her
old toe shoes – which I used to run down the sidewalk in – on my toes – at five. And then I saw The Red Shoes – and I wanted to be that lady, that redhead. And then, when she saw I really had to dance, she said: “You can’t do it until you’re eight.” Well by then, I was only six and I said “BUT I’VE GOT TO DANCE.”

I mean, anything to get out of the house…

Well… let’s face it. My family scene was ah… not good!

Daddy always thought that he married beneath him.
That’s what he said, that’s what he said.
When he proposed he informed my mother
He was probably her very last chance.
And though she was twenty-two,
Though she was twenty-two,
Though she was twenty-two,
She married him.

Life with my dad wasn’t ever a picnic
More like a “Come as you are.”
When I was five I remember my mother
Dug earrings out of the car
I knew they weren’t hers, But it wasn’t
Something you’d want to discuss.
He wasn’t warm.
Well, not to her.
Well, not to us

But
Everything was beautiful at the ballet…

From my series ONE: The Characters of A Chorus Line