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Not Everyone Can Dance
For almost fifteen years now, that is to say ever since the birth of the eldest of my four children, the earliest newspaper intimation that our annual scourge was with us again has elicited from me an awareness of pure terror and rebellion. We speak of "necessary" evils. But one such as this cannot be necessary, it is so unfair, it is so impersonally cruel. Nothing guarantees safety for those you love, for those you try to shelter. It strikes, with an indifferent impartiality, at children in every class of society....