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Contest: Dance of Life Sponsor: Suxzette Richards Written: 100326, 3:55AMCT

Teach Me To Dance



I asked a friend of my older sister
To 'Teach me to dance'.
She complied and tried her best.
I tried, but fail the test.

65 years ago,
Mary birthed a memory,
Now, forever fixed in my history.

It wasn't Mary's fault,
I never learned to dance.
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