ordinary teenage emotions.
Then one afternoon, I arrived at her dance studio without warning.
Her instructor looked at me with a troubled expression.
“Mrs. Bennett, your daughter hasn’t attended a single class in almost two weeks. She told us you didn’t think she was talented enough to continue.”
I stared at her.
I’d never said anything like that.
I’d been paying the tuition
and encouraging Audrey every day.
Then I found my daughter sitting alone near a vending machine.
When I asked why she’d stopped dancing, she looked at me