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    Dance Me Beautiful
    Dance Me Beautiful
    Dance Me Beautiful
    Ebook49 pages35 minutes

    Dance Me Beautiful

    By Deborah Graham

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    Author Deborah Graham was thirty-three years old, recently divorced and on the verge of paying someone to teach her to dance. She wanted every ounce of her being to feel truly beautiful. Graham admits she felt frivolous and foolish, but she took the first step to finding passion in her life.

    In Dance Me Beautiful, Graham narrates a simple and hopeful story of the life lessons she learned through ballroom dancing. This memoir follows her journey from her first dance lesson to tests, competitions and performances as she struggles to break free from her shame and self-doubt. Graham shares her memories of how she felt, what she learned from her instructor and how, step-by-step, she learned to dance herself beautiful.

    Engaging and compelling, Dance Me Beautiful serves to inspire others to take chances and fulfill their dreams and to help awaken their own inner creativity and beauty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781475933895
    Dance Me Beautiful
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    Deborah Graham

    DEBORAH GRAHAM is a collaborative lawyer, mediator, and part-time professor. She lives in Toronto with her son, Christopher, and their cat, Butterscotch.

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      Dance Me Beautiful - Deborah Graham

      DANCE ME 

      BEAUTIFUL

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      Deborah Graham

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      Dance Me Beautiful

      Copyright © 2012 by Deborah Graham

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-3387-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-3389-5 (e)

      iUniverse rev. date: 07/27/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Dance Me Beautiful

      The First Lesson

      Following

      The Dance Frame

      Join Up

      You Have to Believe it to See It

      The Tango

      The School Figures

      Join Up (Again), or the Little Girl in Me

      Back to the Tango, or the Woman in Me

      A Moment of Defeat

      Finding My Centre

      The First Test

      The Power of My Centre

      Being a Spectator

      The Competition

      Stirring Things Up

      The Tango (for Real)

      Acknowledgements

      To Christopher, for making every day beautiful.

      He leaned forward and kissed her

      and she awoke from her long sleep.

      —Sleeping Beauty

      Introduction

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      Prior to my divorce at age 33, I was living what I thought was an uncomplicated and fortunate life. I grew up with my Mom, Dad and brother in a nice house in a nice neighbourhood. I was a straight-A student who never got into any trouble. I graduated from law school and articled at one of the top firms on Bay Street. I married my high school sweetheart and we bought a lovely house in a small Ontario town. We had a dog and planned to have children. I had my own family law practice on the main street of town.

      All was as I had hoped and imagined my life would be.

      And then, my marriage crumbled and ended.

      As a divorce lawyer, I knew what needed to be done legally, but I had no idea how to emotionally survive a divorce.

      When my marriage ended, I grieved it all. I grieved the loss of my marriage, the loss of my hopes, the loss of my dreams and the loss of my innocence. I grieved the broken promises, my broken life and my broken heart.

      Why me? I asked over and over until I finally stopped asking.

      In one of my darkest, saddest

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