I like Mary Jane. She's a sweetheart big sister type. She helped me through my first stage. On my second day as a dancer, the club was empty of customers due to an unseasonable desert rainstorm.. The girls were playing tunes, drinking beers, and showing off their favorite pole tricks.
I said, "I want to do that."
She brought me back to the second stage. The DJ would open it when there were not enough ringside seats, usually on Friday evenings.
We practiced for a half hour.
"The trick to the spin is to use the second joint of your fingers as the fulcrum." Mary Jane demonstrated and I sighed and tried again, This time I sort of got it.
"OK. Now you just need to practice in here while it's slow." She swayed through the archway and into the next room.
I kept practicing. At home that morning I had to soak for an extra few minutes in an epsom salt bath. My fingers were too stiff to spoon cereal for a few days but dropping a few pounds didn't kill me.
And damn it, I learned how to spin.
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