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	<title>Comments on: A Million Pirouettes: Drinking as a Ballerina</title>
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		<title>By: Caren</title>
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		<dc:creator>Caren</dc:creator>
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		<description>It always amazes me when I hear stories like this, about dancers or athletes, whose body is their most valuable commodity. But they are human too, and succumb to vices like the rest of us. Only I imagine they pay a different kind of price when they have to perform and their body may be hurting from a hangover. I liked reading an insider&#039;s experience, though I suppose it&#039;s a scenario from adolescence that resonates for many of us.</description>
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