On Pointe All Day Long
Many people think they can remember things from when they're four years old. Truth is, that unless they've had a traumatic experience, those memories are fabricated, imaginations with the framework built from someone's retelling of the incident or even a photograph, with the older mind filling in the gaps.
However, Natalia's memory of the first day she saw ballet was accurate. It was something wonderful, something that had such an impact in the little girl's psyche that traumatised her and inspired her at the same time.
She remembers watching the Nutcracker unfold. It was the battle with the mice, the dancers were going back and forth, the music was loud, exciting, making her tiny little heart pound. And then the ballerina walks into the stage again, for the Nutcr
