What I Mean When I Say "I Used to Be a Ballerina" (and When I Say "Ballerina Army") No. 3--Exhibit B, The Red Shoes (1948), & Maybe More

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Photo of Audience at Seattle Center's McCaw Hall, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, December 26th, 2022, 8 mo. Pregnant with M. (also, first ballet seen live since I was little)

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Ballerina Music Box Project, Paper Doll of Me on Spring of Fancy Pink Ballerina Music Box No. 1

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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTERS FILES, Case #89-3-00104-3, Exhibit B: Child Support Provisions No. 1

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTERS FILES, Case #89-3-00104-3, Exhibit B Heading

SISTERS FILES/BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Our Matching Totes that Hold Our Slippers, Circa Christmas Eve, 1985

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Guardian Ballerinas, Etsy (Front) and Betsy (Back)

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BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Wood Grain Sample No. 1 (Cannot Obtain Photographic Evidence of the Specific Wood Grain in Question)

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Ballerina Music Box Project, Evidence of Lifelong Obsession with The Red Shoes Movie/Ballet, Amazon "Save For Later" Items, Red Shoes No. 1, No. 2 (Even Though My Knee is Compromised and I'd Break My Neck, But More So Costume Ideas for the Prima and Corps)

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BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Group Photo of Myself and the Rest of a Corps, Circa 1992 (Photo I'm Tagged in on FB--note the braided "tail" my sister convinced me was cool)

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Paper Doll of Me Being Carried around the Stage of the Double-Heart Magnetic Ballerina Music Box by the Prima of that Stage Herself, Think Whimsy, FWIW (it'll get better, or it won't)

BALLERINA ARMY FILES, 3/5" Ballerina Stamp Experiment No. 1: Stamp on Child's Painting (Spared from the Rubbish Bin & with Filter Called "Quasi")

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BALLERINA ARMY FILES, Group Photo of Myself and the Rest of a Corps, Circa 1992 (Photo I'm Tagged in on FB--note the braided "tail" my sister convinced me was cool)--here, third pair from the right, my feet are in first position