Sometimes Maureen misses it so much, it's like an amputation.

She tries to explain it to Jim, and he tells her he loves her, that everything'll be all right – but it can't be; now he's all she has, and how can one man fill the void fourteen years of dance has left in her?

She needs Jodie and Eva and the flushed and flurried new girls to remind her how hard it is, how much she hated it, because right now, all she can remember is the fluid move of muscles beneath toned flesh and how it felt to fly.