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Will you dance with me tonight?

Dear Reader,

I have no been dancing in awhile. I realized this today while sitting in my American Heritage Class. There was absolutely no provocation for this realization, considering our topic of the day was the Great Depression. Anyway, the point is I miss dancing. It is a good time.

I miss ballroom dancing is the real idea. That must be clarified because I dance all the time by myself and with my acapella group. We actually have done a lot of dancing getting ready for the Acapella Jam, where we performed on Saturday. It was a good time.

                                                         
                                                          Richelle and Alan


                                                                             Rhett

                                                           
                                                              Hyrum and Mikaela

We danced our hearts out at the Jam and we have become fast friends. We will definitely have more fun as we continue singing and dancing together.

Like I said, though, I miss ballroom dancing. Especially the Tango. I used to have an amazing time dancing the tango. I attribute my liking to the fact that it is an Argentine dance and I have some kind of connection with South America. Ok...that is a little stretch. It may be because I have only danced the Tango with a small number of partners and I enjoyed dancing with each one of them. One because she was an amazing dancer and she practically led me on the dance floor. My favorite partner unfortunately has not danced very much with me, despite her natural dancing tendencies.

I miss the tango. As the old adage states, "It takes two to tango."

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