they can’t afford it, they don’t want to say they can’t afford it — they’re too embarrassed — so they make up other excuses to cover the financial is… - Abby Lee Miller

My days were filled with U.S. history and algebra. My nights were spent with history of movement and petite allegros. I might have been your average student during my typical school day, but after school, I was quickly becoming a master teacher. While my friends were looking for a future career in the guidance counselor’s office, I was proving to my colleagues that I had already found my true vocation.

That fall, when everyone was doing back-to-school shopping, I couldn’t have cared less about clothes, and classes, and football games. I was totally consumed with going back to dancing school and my plans for the future.

Every child in South Florida can dance. And every child there is amazing.