IF YOU LIVED IN HOUSTON in the early nineties, maybe you got the chance to see hera frail-looking little girl with tiny legs and a wisp of a body, her brown hair pulled back in a bun, her lips pressed together in concentration. Every morning before school and afterward in the afternoon, she would take to the ice rink at the Houston Galleria, skating the same routine over and over, focusing on the movement of her arms, the smoothness of her turns, and the straightness of her legs. If you stood there and kept watching, you might see her leap. She would lift effortlessly off the ice and then land with hardly a sound, and within seconds she would be back in the air again.She…
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